So I use Microsoft Word a lot, I need it in my line of work, and I am for the most part happy with the stability and performance on Mac. But I do think it is a resource hog and I wish it were programmed leaner.
Two pet peeves:
- just hitting Command & D in order to bring up the menu for selecting font type and font size etc. etc.,this happens on a 2015 MacBook Air (i5, base model with 8 gigs of RAM): one-mississippi, two... then spinning beach ball for about two seconds, then the menu comes up. If I repeat the action a short time later, it will be a bit faster, but I still get the spinning beach ball.
Same thing on a 2018 MacMini (i5, 16 gigs of RAM): first time after opening Word, I get a brief spinning beach ball and a short wait. After that, no spinning beach ball but still a noticeable delay.
- just scrolling text in Word (with touchpad, not via the slider to the right) taxes the Macbook Air when it is hooked up to a 4k monitor. The same Macbook Air can scroll heavy webpages all day long without breaking a sweat, but scrolling a word document (and it doesn't even have to be large, this happens with 10, 12 pages, too) will fire up the fan.
My point/question: Ideally I wish Microsoft would get its act together and make their code leaner. On a 2018 machine with six cores and 16 gigs of RAM a simple thing like opening a menu in Word should be friggin instantaneous. John Gruber over at Daring Fireball had a piece recently, can't find it right now, where he talks about the same thing, with Photoshop (?) as an example.
Does anybody here have a setup where for example Command & D happens in a blink?
Two pet peeves:
- just hitting Command & D in order to bring up the menu for selecting font type and font size etc. etc.,this happens on a 2015 MacBook Air (i5, base model with 8 gigs of RAM): one-mississippi, two... then spinning beach ball for about two seconds, then the menu comes up. If I repeat the action a short time later, it will be a bit faster, but I still get the spinning beach ball.
Same thing on a 2018 MacMini (i5, 16 gigs of RAM): first time after opening Word, I get a brief spinning beach ball and a short wait. After that, no spinning beach ball but still a noticeable delay.
- just scrolling text in Word (with touchpad, not via the slider to the right) taxes the Macbook Air when it is hooked up to a 4k monitor. The same Macbook Air can scroll heavy webpages all day long without breaking a sweat, but scrolling a word document (and it doesn't even have to be large, this happens with 10, 12 pages, too) will fire up the fan.
My point/question: Ideally I wish Microsoft would get its act together and make their code leaner. On a 2018 machine with six cores and 16 gigs of RAM a simple thing like opening a menu in Word should be friggin instantaneous. John Gruber over at Daring Fireball had a piece recently, can't find it right now, where he talks about the same thing, with Photoshop (?) as an example.
Does anybody here have a setup where for example Command & D happens in a blink?
