I'm taking a stand!

[UNCjigga]

That's it. I've had it. Starting now I refuse to do any more work until IT sends someone up here with a 512mb module and upgrades my PC from 512mb to 1gb. There is no excuse for not having 1gb on an office machine, especially when most of the managers' PCs have already been upgraded. I don't even want a fancy new PC, I just want the memory. My manager's already approved the request but for some reason the work order is "on hold". Fine. I'll place all my projects "on hold" too.

In the meantime, I shall nef here and elsewhere while waiting for my RAM. Hell, even web-browsing sucks with only 512mb.

 

[KLin]

Close out the 500 excel spreadsheets you have open and maybe it'll run quicker.

 

[JohnAn2112]

I hear ya. My work machine can grind to a halt sometimes. I'll click Reply in Outlook and I'll get the hourglass mouse cursor for a while. I just get up and get a glass of water when this happens.

 

[spidey07]

Stop opening so many programs. 512 is FINE for an office machine.

 

[dullard]

128 MB is overkill for an office machine.

 

[Shawn]

http://www.pcsuperstore.com/pr...49299-HP-PX976AT.html/

 

[krunchykrome]

Ask for dual widescreens while your at it

 

[Accipiter22]

Originally posted by: dullard
128 MB is overkill for an office machine.

um what offices have you worked in?

 

[purbeast0]

Originally posted by: JohnAn2112
I hear ya. My work machine can grind to a halt sometimes. I'll click Reply in Outlook and I'll get the hourglass mouse cursor for a while. I just get up and get a glass of water when this happens.

Outlook is the biggest piece of crap. It takes like 5 seconds for me to do anything in it. If I reply, make a new one, hell, even expand it from the corner tray, it will take 5 seconds to resopnd. If I press the up key and move my current message to the one above it, it takes like 5 seconds to open it.

I do not understand how Outlook can be such a piece of crap.

 

[SlowSpyder]

I had to gank 256MB out of a disposal machine to get up to 512. I was in heaven, then they upgraded my PC all together. 512MB on XP ran pretty well for me.

 

[JohnAn2112]

Originally posted by: purbeast0

Originally posted by: JohnAn2112
I hear ya. My work machine can grind to a halt sometimes. I'll click Reply in Outlook and I'll get the hourglass mouse cursor for a while. I just get up and get a glass of water when this happens.

Outlook is the biggest piece of crap. It takes like 5 seconds for me to do anything in it. If I reply, make a new one, hell, even expand it from the corner tray, it will take 5 seconds to resopnd. If I press the up key and move my current message to the one above it, it takes like 5 seconds to open it.

I do not understand how Outlook can be such a piece of crap.

Yeah, Outlook sucks. Oh, and it doesn't help that the IT guys have that stupid Rtvscan running on my PC, also. Sometimes that process will jump up to 70% CPU usage when I'm working and I can't stop it. So annoying. :|

 

[andylawcc]

you go boy!

512 with Photoshop, outlook, word, and acrobat = office in hell

 

[JulesMaximus]

I'm sure your replacement will have no problem using your computer.

 

[Spineshank]

Most of our work machines have 512. Some even have 256. All run fine. The ones that use more memory extensive programs have more memory in them.

 

[Aharami]

Originally posted by: purbeast0

Originally posted by: JohnAn2112
I hear ya. My work machine can grind to a halt sometimes. I'll click Reply in Outlook and I'll get the hourglass mouse cursor for a while. I just get up and get a glass of water when this happens.

Outlook is the biggest piece of crap. It takes like 5 seconds for me to do anything in it. If I reply, make a new one, hell, even expand it from the corner tray, it will take 5 seconds to resopnd. If I press the up key and move my current message to the one above it, it takes like 5 seconds to open it.

I do not understand how Outlook can be such a piece of crap.

i take it you've never used Lotus Notes? After having to use notes for the past 3 yrs, I'll gladly switch to outlook. Here's a sample scenario

New mail will come. I will click on said new mail. Hour glass will pop up. I will walk to the water cooler and fill up my 24oz glass with water. I will walk back to my desk. Hourglass will still be there. Will take another couple seconds before content of new mail shows up in preview pane.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: Accipiter22
Um what offices have you worked in?

Word, Excel, Email, etc (typical office programs) are not memory hogs. You do not need more than 128 MB for office programs. You could overload the user with things beyond office programs, but that isn't what I was talking about.

Windows XP runs quite well with no lag and 128 MB of memory and several office programs open at once. Office computers do not NEED Vista. Office computers don't need memory hogging programs. Offices worked quite well with 4 MB, 16 MB, etc in years past.

If he has programs that truely need 1 GB, it isn't an office machine. It is a workstation.

 

[Gulzakar]

2 years ago, I was working at Kaiser on a windows 200 machine with... 64 megs of ram.

 

[Saulbadguy]

Originally posted by: spidey07
Stop opening so many programs. 512 is FINE for an office machine.

It all depends on what he does, really. I can see where 512mb would not be enough.

 

[swtethan]

im using 256mb P3 in XP just fine

 

[RichieZ]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: Accipiter22
Um what offices have you worked in?

Word, Excel, Email, etc (typical office programs) are not memory hogs. You do not need more than 128 MB for office programs. You could overload the user with things beyond office programs, but that isn't what I was talking about.

Windows XP runs quite well with no lag and 128 MB of memory and several office programs open at once. Office computers do not NEED Vista. Office computers don't need memory hogging programs.

If he has programs that truely need 1 GB, it isn't an office machine. It is a workstation.

lets run anti-virus and an incremental backup process in the background, neither can be turned off. I'll boot my laptop that has 512MB of ram and when all the junk IT has loaded onto my computer has loaded i'll be left with 80MB of free physical memory before I open up outlook or anything.

 

[Saulbadguy]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: Accipiter22
Um what offices have you worked in?

Word, Excel, Email, etc (typical office programs) are not memory hogs. You do not need more than 128 MB for office programs. You could overload the user with things beyond office programs, but that isn't what I was talking about.

Windows XP runs quite well with no lag and 128 MB of memory and several office programs open at once. Office computers do not NEED Vista. Office computers don't need memory hogging programs. Offices worked quite well with 4 MB, 16 MB, etc in years past.

If he has programs that truely need 1 GB, it isn't an office machine. It is a workstation.

Large access databases? Complex excel spreadsheets with lots of macros? Multiple office applications open at once doing various different tasks?

 

[j00fek]

your pink slip is waiting

 

[purbeast0]

Originally posted by: Aharami

Originally posted by: purbeast0

Originally posted by: JohnAn2112
I hear ya. My work machine can grind to a halt sometimes. I'll click Reply in Outlook and I'll get the hourglass mouse cursor for a while. I just get up and get a glass of water when this happens.

Outlook is the biggest piece of crap. It takes like 5 seconds for me to do anything in it. If I reply, make a new one, hell, even expand it from the corner tray, it will take 5 seconds to resopnd. If I press the up key and move my current message to the one above it, it takes like 5 seconds to open it.

I do not understand how Outlook can be such a piece of crap.

i take it you've never used Lotus Notes? After having to use notes for the past 3 yrs, I'll gladly switch to outlook. Here's a sample scenario

New mail will come. I will click on said new mail. Hour glass will pop up. I will walk to the water cooler and fill up my 24oz glass with water. I will walk back to my desk. Hourglass will still be there. Will take another couple seconds before content of new mail shows up in preview pane.

Hah no I have never used that.

I was using the mac mail program on my mac until we switched our mail server to exchange. I can use Entourage on my mac but I am just so lazy I haven't bothered to set it up. I also try to steer clear of my mac as much as i can heh.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: Aharami

Originally posted by: purbeast0

Originally posted by: JohnAn2112
I hear ya. My work machine can grind to a halt sometimes. I'll click Reply in Outlook and I'll get the hourglass mouse cursor for a while. I just get up and get a glass of water when this happens.

Outlook is the biggest piece of crap. It takes like 5 seconds for me to do anything in it. If I reply, make a new one, hell, even expand it from the corner tray, it will take 5 seconds to resopnd. If I press the up key and move my current message to the one above it, it takes like 5 seconds to open it.

I do not understand how Outlook can be such a piece of crap.

i take it you've never used Lotus Notes? After having to use notes for the past 3 yrs, I'll gladly switch to outlook. Here's a sample scenario

New mail will come. I will click on said new mail. Hour glass will pop up. I will walk to the water cooler and fill up my 24oz glass with water. I will walk back to my desk. Hourglass will still be there. Will take another couple seconds before content of new mail shows up in preview pane.

:thumbsup: I had to use Lotus Notes for about a year and a half. I hated it. Outlook is so much better.

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: krunchykrome
Ask for dual widescreens while your at it

I need to do that.. I can't stand working with one.

EDIT: Oh and I like Outlook so much I paid $20 for Office 2007 Enterprise mainly just for Outlook .