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The minimum specifications of a computer to be able to run the next Microsoft Office version has been revealed. Here they are:
Processor: Intel Pentium 500 MHz
RAM: 256 MB PC100 SDRAM
Operating System: Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3
Video Card: 64 MB RAM with DirectX 9.0c
The video memory requirement is for Excel and PowerPoint. Those who have machines with multicore processors will run the Office 2010 faster.
Source: Theinquirer.net
That is such BS. We have started converting all of our computers to Office 2007 w/XP Pro, and anyone with 1GB of memory or less is barely making it. I know there are other apps running that make it harder on the sys resources, but to be fair, I’ve seen users that keep Outlook and two spreadsheets open and it seems like their systems drag along. I just hate how they always put the min requirements way under par (and even the recommended resources at times), because then it’s up to the IT dept to explain to all of the corporate managers why their machine is good enough on paper but not on screen.
Maybe 256Mb for the Office app, but there’s no way to make XPpro viable on much less than 512Mb – and even that can be painful.
I tried the beta on a 2.5Ghz, dual-core, 3GB XPpro box and it was “pretty” – pretty slow to load, pretty sluggish to page, pretty slow to save.
I’m happily back to OpenOffice.Org 3. It may not be perfect (is Office?) but it’s fine for my purposes here, and it will run on “normal” machines.
ian At lest it is OBVIOUS it does not make sense
Interesting. My laptop has lower specs than David Day’s XPpro box, and Office 2010 has run just fine. It’s almost as fast as 2003 was on the same device.
FYI: typo in heading (should be “Minimum” of course)…thanks
“Operating System: Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3″
I’m running the beta now on XP with sp2 and have no problems.
Is this joke or what?? I think no one can believe this specs are true, but lets wait, maybe MS will give us some magic.