On 8/14/02 12:13 PM, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 8/14/02 11:59 AM, "Peter C.S. Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Paul Berkowitz gave an excellent rundown of ways to speed up Entourage. To >> his suggestions, I would add: TURN OFF TEXT SMOOTHING! Especially if you >> have a G3. In Entourage, choose "General Preferences" from the Entourage >> menu. Click the "General" tab, and make sure "Enable Quartz text Smoothing" >> is turned OFF (unchecked). >> >> I find this speeds up Entourage considerably (to the point that it is >> usable) and makes the type easier to read to my poor tired old eyes... >> >> P.S. You can turn smoothing off in Word, too, for a similar speedup. > > Well, I'm on a G3 myself - an old 350 CPU one - and I don't find Entourage > slow. My database currently is about 250 MB in size, as well. But I have 768 > MB RAM - that's the secret, You need 512 MB RAM to fell really comfortable > at those sizes, and more is better. > > On my iBook, with a smaller database, I have a 600 CPU G3 processor, and > only 384 MB RAM. That combination is also fast - maybe faster in fact. But > the database is only about 40 MB there. And the point of my saying all this, which i forgot to include, is that i have Quartz smoothing ON and everything is just fine. Not slow at all. -- Paul Berkowitz -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
