Min Proc Speed for Office 2007

[Bob D]

I bought Office 2007 Home & Student, but just noticed a min processor speed
of 500 MHz. I'm still running a 350 MHz Pentium II. I'm trying to find
before I crack the seal if Office 2007 will actually run (maybe slowly) on
machines with processor speed <500 MHz or does the software check for
processor speed and not allow the installation.

 

[Gordon]

I bought Office 2007 Home & Student, but just noticed a min processor speed
of 500 MHz. I'm still running a 350 MHz Pentium II. I'm trying to find
before I crack the seal if Office 2007 will actually run (maybe slowly) on
machines with processor speed <500 MHz or does the software check for
processor speed and not allow the installation.

If your processor is that old, then are you SURE that your machine will run
Office 2007 AT ALL? What OS have you got?

 

[Bob D]

That's really the question if it will run it at all -- and will MS will evel
allow it to load is a second question. I just upgraded to XP and my h/w
configuration, while old, was ok for that. However, to get XP to load I had
to blow away the old OS (and the old word & excel), so now I don't have even
an old, but usable word or excel. The plan was load XP to accommodate s/w
(e.g., TurboTax) that requires more than 98, then to load Office 2007.

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP (OneNote)]

I don't recall if it actually checks or not but the system requirement
is for 500Mhz or better.

You're also going to need at least 256MB of RAM (but I wouldn't do it
with that little) and at least 1.5 (if I recall correctly) GB of hard
drive space.

Are you running at least Windows XP SP2?

--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
http://www.officeforlawyers.com
Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP (OneNote)]

Well, you could download and try to install the Trial version I guess.
If it installs or doesn't install you'll have your answer without having
to crack the seal on your retail version. You'll even have the chance
to try using it for a week or two (assuming it installs) to see how the
performance is.

I don't how much RAM you have but unless this is a heavily upgraded
PII-350 I'm going to guess that the performance will probably be pretty
dismal.

--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
http://www.officeforlawyers.com
Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q

 

[JoAnn Paules]

I just don't think it will run in a way to make you productive. I doubt
you'll have enough RAM, hard drive space, etc. Leave it sealed.

 

[afm101.phoenix.edu]

OMG - You could not give something that old to someone in good conscience. Send it to school and let the kids tear it up to see what computers
look like.

Get in the 20th century, you did read the minimum system requirements on the packaging? How could you even ask?










I bought Office 2007 Home & Student, but just noticed a min processor speed
of 500 MHz. I'm still running a 350 MHz Pentium II. I'm trying to find
before I crack the seal if Office 2007 will actually run (maybe slowly) on
machines with processor speed <500 MHz or does the software check for
processor speed and not allow the installation.