I've drawn the conclusion that the only real memory-hog is the Netscape browser.
A couple of folks have advised me to install a 32MB simm for that purpose alone.
It would certainly be a shame to make the system buckle when browsing just
because it lacks RAM.
Does anyone know otherwise? It would be a waste to invest in expanding the RAM
if it's unwarranted, though I've never heard complaints about too much RAM.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stan Barr" <stanb(a)dial.pipex.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: OT: paging MAC expert(s) --- What's a Performa?
> Yes, I saw that. What's still a little murky
is how best to exploit the
thing
> in the context of "normal" (if there is
such a thing) home computing. I
> certainly don't know what's normal. There's software installed
that's
> undocumented (unsupported by registration doc's), so it will have to go, but
I'm
> not interested in going out and buying software
to load the thing up so that
it
> can do some basic correspondence. They both have
Claris Works loaded, but
since
> there's no CD and no doc, I have to say
it's got to be flushed. Too bad
since
> that purports to have all the stuff that's
needed. There's even a (single)
copy
> of the manual suggesting that the software stayed
wherever these boxes came
> from. (makes my skin crawl to end a sentence with a preposition, but it
would
sound too
"stilted" to construct the sentence correctly ... )
These machines shipped with Claris Works pre-installed and on the system
CD - at least they did here in the UK. Claris Works is real easy to use
and comes with comprehensive on-line help - click on the question mark
icon, top right, when in Claris Works. I still use it for my normal word
processing, you don't need much horsepower for that!
Video equipped models also came with Avid Videoshop.
--
Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb(a)dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!