on 2/3/05 2:40 PM, Michael M. Cohen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I get this and several other mailing lists in digest form. Has anyone else > noticed that when running Entourage '04 --a delay happens after clicking on > the name of the email and then having to wait to see the actual digest > appear in the window? > > The digest files aren't particularly large averaging about 15-25K in size. > I have read this digest in other mail programs without a noticeable > delay...How come? > > I am running an iMac G5 with 1meg of ram and not a lot else...
I notice the same with any email that is larger than 20K or so. It gets worse the larger the email. I posted about it before, with messages that were a few hundred k in size, and was more or less told those emails were huge. I kind of disagree, they are plain text after all, any text editor handles them fine. I also keep a close eye on other email apps, Eudora, Mail, and Guyaz do not have this issue, though they are a little more lightweight than Entourage. Still, Entourage has the features I want, so I stick with it, even though it is getting to be a dog performance wise. I run a dual 2.0 G5, 2Gigs of ram. Entourage plays no better nor worse for me on a single CPU 1.8, to be honest, I did not notice any performance increase when moving from my old G5 800 to the G5 dual. I think I could throw a dual 8Ghz at it and it would still be the same. Playing with a dual 2.5 at the Apple Store, I could not tell a difference at all. When I am typing a email and the pop check schedule kicks in, I can usually get three to five words ahead of Entourage as the pop checking slows the whole app down. IMHO, Entourage needs a little time where the devs do nothing but performance tuning. Then again, I want Apple to do the same for a year with OS X :-) However, you can not sell performance tuning, so it gets a back seat. I am hoping over the next year, and with 10.4, there are some things that help the Mac BU work on these issues. Reading a email, checking email etc should not pop my CPU's up to 50% usage, this is email :-) -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Haneda Tel: 415.898.2602 <http://www.newgeo.com> Fax: 313.557.5052 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Novato, CA U.S.A. -- 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/>
