*** Thanks everyone for all your comments...It's always appreciated. I
will look into a better video card - not that this is urgent. These 486
machines are used primarily for web surfing in the classroom at which they
work fine - just curious on what is causing the drag with star office
(specifically certain fonts or moving/dragging/resizing an image).



> 
> I tried a 486DX-100 16 MB Ram and a PCI bus about six months ago I run
> OpenOffice on my server. I don't remember any problems with it, but I
> will dust it off and see if I can duplicate your problems. The secret to
> using old computers is to invest in a decent Video Card. If your 486 has
> an old ISA bus you are out of luck as this will always be slow. PCI or
> VESA local bus at a pinch. I have tried both, PCI is the winner, which
> is what you would expect.
> 
> In Australia I can buy a decent PCI card for $60 which is about $30 US
> 
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