Notes 8.5 beta 2 start-up .. first impressions.
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Well the install didn't go too smoothly - mostly because I forgot that the beta's don't support upgrade over a previous version. So then removing the old version was a pain ... blah blah blah .. then finally got it installing.
Got one error during the install about not being able to unregister a component - probably due to my hacked uninstall .. but otherwise the install was fine..
So then I got the stop watch ready (could have done with a drum roll here) - waiting for the blistering speed of the start-up ... but then it had to run some configuration stuff and my myriad of ids / locations / organisations didn't make things any easier .. but it got there. So then shutdown and restart - no it wouldn't - hmmm.
So ok, one quick machine restart later and I was starting Notes cold again. Started ok, but the speed certainly wasn't blistering (over 2 mins)
However - closed it (and I swear it shutdowns quicker - the processes are gone within 5-10 seconds), then hot-start - and damned is that quick.
I would often have not closed notes because of the time to restart - but if that hot-start is consistently that quick (and it seems to be) then closing it really isn't an issue. I'm a little disappointed so far with the cold-start - I can't discern any real difference in the start-up time, but I'll reserve complete judgement on that.
I'm off to find some other new features now..
[ Machine is Intel Core 2 1.8 with 2Gb RAM ]
Bookmark :
Well the install didn't go too smoothly - mostly because I forgot that the beta's don't support upgrade over a previous version. So then removing the old version was a pain ... blah blah blah .. then finally got it installing.
Got one error during the install about not being able to unregister a component - probably due to my hacked uninstall .. but otherwise the install was fine..
So then I got the stop watch ready (could have done with a drum roll here) - waiting for the blistering speed of the start-up ... but then it had to run some configuration stuff and my myriad of ids / locations / organisations didn't make things any easier .. but it got there. So then shutdown and restart - no it wouldn't - hmmm.
So ok, one quick machine restart later and I was starting Notes cold again. Started ok, but the speed certainly wasn't blistering (over 2 mins)
However - closed it (and I swear it shutdowns quicker - the processes are gone within 5-10 seconds), then hot-start - and damned is that quick.
I would often have not closed notes because of the time to restart - but if that hot-start is consistently that quick (and it seems to be) then closing it really isn't an issue. I'm a little disappointed so far with the cold-start - I can't discern any real difference in the start-up time, but I'll reserve complete judgement on that.
I'm off to find some other new features now..
[ Machine is Intel Core 2 1.8 with 2Gb RAM ]
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