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Submitted by Jon on 2010/01/13 11:38

I know that Jan is running IQ on his netbook. So far, I have been running IQ on a very fast notebook and have experienced some performance issues, but this is a huge improvement from the early days.

The appeal of a netbook is the price (it can essentailly be a throw-away), and the battery life. The trade-off is performance and marginal display. I experimented with IQ running under Windows 7 Starter Edition, and found IQ to be uh, sluggish. To be fair, all of my programs take a hit when run on this netbook (with the latest Atom processor and a 250 GB hard drive), but IQ suffers the most by far. Are there any tricks to improve this situation?

By the way, IQ on a netbook is great for taking and organizing quick notes. Leaving the netbook on standby speeds up accessibility to IQ and uses negigible battery power.

Jon

Comments

Jon, Don't know about you but IQ takes a while to load in but what other areas do you notice performance issues. I'll compare on my end & report back. Just FYI, IQ is linked to DropBox so I work off same dB wherever I am. And I agree having IQ on a netbook is very handy for all the reasons you site. Mine is running on XP home (I'll dbl chk)

Jan Rifkinson

Ridgefield CT USA

HP Blackbird Vista Ultimate SP-2

Jan:

Thank you for your response. Yes, the load time seems overly long. I also find that scrolling through long outlines, particularly those grids containing multiple line items, is sluuggish. Pasting sizeable articles takes much longer, particularly if you break it up one break per item. Everything is slower, but I have to remember, this is a netbook. For now it seems like an acceptable trade-off.

Jon

Hi Jon,

There is still some optimization to be done for the load time (which did increase with the use of the Calendar). As for items with large pieces of text, it is slow, I know. It is recommended to keep the item to a few lines and put the bulk in the HTML pane.