Re: Powerpoint - Mac vs PC

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On Mar 5, 11:41 pm, Jim Gordon MVP <goldke...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hi Tom,

I wouldn't expect as much difference as you are seeing. I suspect there's
not enough RAM in the MacPro.

There's a handy little utility in the Applications > Utilities folder. Run
Activity Monitor and see what's eating up all your computing power.

Does your MacPro have a graphics card? OSX off-loads a lot of graphics
handling to the graphics cards these days. Does your graphics card have
plenty of RAM?

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

Quoting from "Tom" <tfowl...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, in article
1173134658.561883.47...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, on [DATE:

I have a laptop PC for work running Windows 2000 with Microsoft Office
2000 and a new Mac Pro with Office 2004 at home. I do PP presentations
for work and for family. Some are very large files - timed slide shows
with music and animation. Sometimes with more then 200 slides. I am
very frustrated with the Mac- PP runs very slow, it can take 10 times
as long to open a file and then I have constant crashes. I don't have
those problems with the PC. Do others have this probelm? Will
Microsoft make PP as anative application for Mac?? I had the same
issues with my Power Mac G4.

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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Jim, thanks for the reply. The Mac pro came with 1Gb 667 Mhz DDRZ FB -
Dimm. And the graphics card is a NVIDIA GeForce 7300 with VRAM total
of 256MB.

I ran the Activity monitor and with the PP slide show open, the real
memory usage for PP was 790 MB. Other application including the
finder, dock etc was another total of another 20MB. That's a total
810, still below the 1GB.
Under System memory it says : usage 100.3MB, Active 604.5MB, Inactive
307.2 -total used 1012.3.
And free of 11.88

I am not sure what all that means??? So I need more Ram??

Thanks Tom


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