Problems opening PowerPoint Presentations

[John]

I do Power Point presentatins. I usuallky create them on my Mac or
Windows 98 machine and save to a floppy, and then present them on a
Windows 2000 presentation machine at my university. (Unfortunately I do
not have a burner, nor a USB flash drive. But floppies work okay for
text and small graphics, and my presentations are not multimedia
dependent, so floppies work okay on both my machines). I usually test
the presentations on my PC and Mac and they both open up quite fast from
the floppy.

Test results

Mac using Power Point 98- 10 seconds for a 10 page slide using 7 graphics
Windows 98 PC laptop using Power Point 97- A little faster
-------
Windows 2000 presentation machine using PowerPoint XP- Estimated 20
seconds

This is odd since my PC is only a PII 266mhz, and my mac a G3 300mhz,
and they open up the presentations in no time from the floppy.
The presentation machines have much more RAM and are using a much faster
CPU.

Could this be because my PC is using Power Point 97 and I believe the
Windows 2000 machine is using Power Point XP? Perhaps the files are
being converted. Or is it because the floppy that I use on my Mac is 4X
and the one in my PC laptop is about the same speed? Perhaps newer PC's
are not getting the fastest floppy drives.



John

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I do Power Point presentatins. I usuallky create them on my Mac or
Windows 98 machine and save to a floppy, and then present them on a
Windows 2000 presentation machine at my university. (Unfortunately I do
not have a burner, nor a USB flash drive. But floppies work okay for
text and small graphics, and my presentations are not multimedia
dependent, so floppies work okay on both my machines). I usually test
the presentations on my PC and Mac and they both open up quite fast from
the floppy.

Test results

Mac using Power Point 98- 10 seconds for a 10 page slide using 7 graphics
Windows 98 PC laptop using Power Point 97- A little faster
-------
Windows 2000 presentation machine using PowerPoint XP- Estimated 20
seconds

This is odd since my PC is only a PII 266mhz, and my mac a G3 300mhz,
and they open up the presentations in no time from the floppy.
The presentation machines have much more RAM and are using a much faster
CPU.

Could this be because my PC is using Power Point 97 and I believe the
Windows 2000 machine is using Power Point XP? Perhaps the files are
being converted. Or is it because the floppy that I use on my Mac is 4X
and the one in my PC laptop is about the same speed? Perhaps newer PC's
are not getting the fastest floppy drives.

Try copying the presentation to the HDD in all cases and then compare speeds.
That takes the floppy and its access speed out of the loop .

--
Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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