Office2000 Hardware Requirements 2

[wolffcub]

We are going to be installing Office2000 on all our PC's in our organization but Microsoft's deployment site indicates a minimum of 16 meg for memory. I have 200MHz PCs with 32 meg memory and find it hard to believe that 32 meg will be enough with all the other applications we run.

Does anyone have any real life experiences with what a GOOD minimum would be?

Any suggestions are appreciated.

 

[Dreamboat]

128MB would be terrific. 64MB would be minimal, especially with 200s.
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[wolffcub]

This is exactly what I am looking for..Need to present to Project Committee...Thanks Dreamboat.

 

[nlm9802]

minimal is just that.. the minimum to run that application.
depending on what else you run ie Norton, IE, etc
I would recommend a processor upgrade too, at least to 500mhz. I dont know about 128 being terrific, but its better than 32

 

[Zelandakh]

Realistically, 200 Pentium is fine. It won't be blindingly fast.

32MB means one slow app at a time. 64MB means 2 apps running ok. 128MB means the processor will be the weakest link.

Make sure you have plenty of disk space for the swap file!

 

[kjonnnnn]

I have a few 200s running on 32. Seems to work ok. Wont win any races, but people can get their work done.

 

[Zelandakh]

Sorry. To elaborate, I am taking it as read that Outlook is open all the time.

So Outlook plus one app in 32MB.
Outlook plus two apps in 64MB.

 

[wolffcub]

Actually we are not using Outlook. We are a mixed shop that seems to like challenges..We have Novell's Groupwise open all the time and it takes up a good portion of resources. It's not unusual to have Groupwise, Word, Excel, McAfee and IE open all at the same time.

We are looking at the possibility of running Office2000 through Citrix Metaframe if the PCs are not going to be able to take the load easy enough. If it's just a matter of popping in 32 meg more of ram I will be ok, but anything beyond that I think I will have a hard time selling it over Citrix.

 

[Birbone]

Wolfcub,

I would listen to Dreamboat and Zelandakh. They are right about the memory and processors for your average corporate needs. If you have any users (i.e. QA Testers) who utilize several large applications at once in addition to the general office applications, you may want to evaluate them to determine if they could be more productive with a memory or processor upgrade. Hope this helps. s-) -Bobby
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[Garridon]

I've had 32MB and 64MB and higher with Office 2000. I can tell you that at 32, it is nearly non-functional (meaning that I could open email in Outlook, and it was barely good enough for that). The screen kept flickering and blinking, which was hard on the eyes (not the monitor; it was the same one I always use). 64 also gave me lots of memory problems (most noticable if you have the Office Assistant open--he jumps around and leaves after images). I ended up not leaving more than one or two programs open at the same time. But higher than 64, and there's no problems.



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[Dreamboat]

Wow. A "bouquet" of system requirements!
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