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| Subject: | [gislist] Minimum Requirements for AV3.x and AV9 |
| Date: |
10/22/2004 09:55:00 AM |
| From: |
Ken Sutherland |
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I recently upgraded to Windows XP, ArcGIS 9: I still use AV3 only more as =
a viewer than as an application software. Why? Because AV3 doesn't perform =
well on XP as stated in the ESRI bulletin on OSs. Regardless of this minor =
setback, I moved faster into V9 since AV3 was unreliable and so much =
SLOWER than usual on displays and selections.
Then I wondered where I had read that V9 was so much quicker on loading =
and moving to other projects? Because that's not true on this system =
either, still a slow process even with a 3 GHz Pentium 4 CPU with 1 GB =
RAM. So then I wondered how much time we all spend waiting on displays, =
numerous regens in V9, selections, and other processes.
Call this computer "lag" time which takes up to 20% of our work lives. I =
also drive 5 hours a week, 20 hours a month, 240 hours a year: so that's 6 =
work weeks a year on the road. Average 20% of an 8 hour day for computer =
"lag" time and we're in suspense 33% of our work lives, in this scenario =
almost 16 work weeks a year EACH!
Yet I've never heard many complaints about this at work or any forum =
discussions on computer "lag" time. We're trapped while the processor =
takes 15 seconds to select an object or three minutes to select a record =
from 100K entries: can we have some impact as a group on this matter, =
i.e., synchronize new software with optimal hardware needs?
Ken=20
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