--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <r...@...> wrote: > <snip> > This computer doesn't multi-task well. Apps often bog > each other down, such that everything runs slowly. MS > Outlook is one of the biggest culprits. It takes an > unbelievably long time to check email, it's hard to > use Outlook while it's being checked, and other > applications are compromised during the process.
Nothing geekish to contribute, but I've read a couple of ecstatic reviews of GMail's new offline feature, e.g.: Slate's Farhad Manjoo, "How GMail Destroyed Outlook": http://www.slate.com/id/2210090/ James Fallows's blog (not really a review, but an expression of excitement at the prospect): http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/01/big_news_on_the_p ersonal_tech.php http://tinyurl.com/detbyw A followup post quoting an email from someone who just started using it: http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/01/offline_gmail_ins tant_user_rep.php http://tinyurl.com/awywz7 FWIW, I use Eudora, and gobs of archived mail doesn't seem to slow it down as long as it's stored in folders rather than the Inbox or Outbox. I don't put anywhere near the demands on my machine that you do on yours, but I've seen that complaint about Outlook from all kinds of users. (But if you don't travel enough to require a good Web email account, I can't quite figure out what the advantage is of offline GMail over a speedy desktop email client like Eudora.)
