Microsoft Office and Intel Macs = Painfully slow.
Yes, I just got my first work Intel Mac – A MacBook Pro (I had a MacBook at home already – it’s pretty much a home photo and web browser/email machine), and got all my apps on it… including MS Office 2004. Wow, now, I wasn’t expecting super snappy performance, but holy cow. Opening the apps take forever and get this ‚Äì Entourage somehow got completely broken. Yes, won’t launch, just dies in the dock after two bounces. I’ll have to remove, reinstall, run all the updates so that my identity can be read by the app and then pray that my database isn’t corrupted. I know Office 2008 is in private beta, but man oh man, could they hurry up?
It’s bad enough, that now I open simple word docs in TextEdit and am seriously considering just temporarily moving to Google Docs and Spreadsheets until the new Universal Binary Office comes out. Since we recently set up a new Exchange server at work, too, I am considering trying to meld iCal and Apple mail into my workflow as opposed to using Entourage. I do hate that one database file of over 3GB is storing my last 4 years of correspondence, etc. I back the DB up nearly weekly, but even then, I have stacks of DVDs building up and it does take a few minutes of my time every work week. With Apple’s Mail and their Backup app, it’s all automated.
Ouch.
Anyone else out there experiencing such awful conditions imposed by Office on your Intel Mac?
Posted on May 18, 2007
JesterXL May 18
Yes, blows. Studio 8 products are pretty pathetic as well. Thank God for CS3… assuming you can actually install them and get them authenticated correctly… *ahem*.
Rob Nov 9
I was going to download yet another 180mb upgrade for Microsoft Office for the Mac, but decided to download Open Office Aqua instead & it runs fine.
Microsoft Office on the Mac is absurd. Simple copy and paste takes 5 to 10 seconds at times.. I’ve never had an application run this slow on any computer, period. I keep thinking there must be something wrong.
Does anyone have an Intel Mac running MS Office that isn’t excruciatingly painfully slow? I’m running a new Macbook with 6gigs of Ram.