<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I really would like to see the material you read. If true, 3X is worth a lot more<DIV>than one splat!!!!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>My experiences with Excel and Word on a 512MB MacBook is that they generally </DIV><DIV>appear to run at the same speed as on a 1.3GHz PBook. One real plus is that</DIV><DIV>my spreadsheet, 16400 rows long, takes only 5 sec to save on the MacBook, </DIV><DIV>compared to 15 sec on the PB. Now that's significant to me!! (I assume Excel uses</DIV><DIV>some file system calls that have been converted to universal.)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>However, there are occasional delays or pauses during some finder or file type </DIV><DIV>activities that are annoying but not crippling.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I should receive 2GB of memory and a 7200 rpm drive today, so I'll have a </DIV><DIV>before/after comparison soon.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But I would like to see that reference.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Jon</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jun 22, 2006, at 12:23 PM, Robert MacLeay <<A href="mailto:robertmacleay@mac.com">robertmacleay@mac.com</A>> </DIV><DIV>wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I have read that that apps running under Rosetta require as much as three</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">times(!) the RAM they would on a PPC Mac. You are probably right about</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">needing to max out your RAM.</FONT></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>