Not my imagination...

[alexpgp]

Without engaging in some kind of scientific research, at various times through the day today I started the following applications, used them for a little bit, and then closed them. The catch was, I used a stopwatch to measure how long it took to arrive at a ready-to-work state from the time the program was launched.

Typically, a browser would be open in the background, along with a couple of directory windows, along with all the default processes that run whenever I turn on the machine (firewall, anti-virus, etc.). My results stated as an average startup time for three launches of each program:

Application	Time until ready
Apple iTunes	34 sec
MS Word (Office 2003)	22 sec
Quicken Invoice Manager	79 sec

With Quicken, you almost have enough time to go get a cup of coffee. (Criminy! And I thought iTunes was slow!)

Cheers...

Comments

[daphnis.livejournal.com]

Picky, picky, picky ;~D It takes my setup about three times that long to be ready to use; it then takes my alleged brain five minutes to remember what I was intending to do in the first place!!

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

Well, when one considers that I bought the blasted software to help me over the lassitude that I feel whenever I have to deal with any financial paper, the fact that it runs in the slow lane doesn't do much to improve my efficiency.

In any event, delays along those lines aid and abet the kind of thing you're talking about, 'cept on an ongoing basis!

Cheers...