Toby wells wrote: Two years ago yes But these days we are paying around 65 Euro for a 240GB SSD. OS X, Apps and odds and ends is 35GB, even with a 50GB Outlook file we have a lot of space left But thats relative to our policy of no data on devices. Good point on the cost of SSDs dropping. Wish I could just pop some of those in our aging Mac Air fleet! Even with a large drive I just don't see the point in syncing everything. • Seems like there is more potential for sync errors. • It will use more bandwidth and take longer when setting up Outlook for the first time. • Outlook might have better performance with just a partial sync, but maybe not if they designed it right. Ryan_w wrote: toby wells wrote: Two years ago yes But these days we are paying around 65 Euro for a 240GB SSD. Sep 13, 2012 Question: Q: Spinning wheel during everyday Outlook usage. These older machines in general get a lot of spinning wheel action while using Outlook. Mac OS X Speciality level out of ten: 0. Sep 13, 2012 4:42 AM in response to Neilo In response to Neilo. Macbook 'spinning wheel of death' when using office for mac 2011? When using office for mac 2011, and in particular Outlook, the 'spinning wheel' very often appears for up to 5 seconds at a time, interrupting my work. OS X, Apps and odds and ends is 35GB, even with a 50GB Outlook file we have a lot of space left But thats relative to our policy of no data on devices. Good point on the cost of SSDs dropping. Wish I could just pop some of those in our aging Mac Air fleet! Even with a large drive I just don't see the point in syncing everything. • Seems like there is more potential for sync errors. • It will use more bandwidth and take longer when setting up Outlook for the first time. • Outlook might have better performance with just a partial sync, but maybe not if they designed it right. ![]() Whats stopping you upgrading the MacBook Air.these aren't much more than a 2.5in SATA drive, we have used them in a lot of units. I cant remember the last time I even thought about preserving bandwidth;-) Not since I was using ISDN dialup in 1997. Outlook brings mail in from new to old so when migrating a user or setting up a new laptop for them they rarely notice their old mail isn't there for a few hours I have a lot of users with 35-40GB mailboxes, the new version of Outlook manages these without an issue, true the old Outlook 2011 would have fallen over but thats 6 year old code so to be expected. Toby wells wrote: Whats stopping you upgrading the MacBook Air.these aren't much more than a 2.5in SATA drive, we have used them in a lot of units. I cant remember the last time I even thought about preserving bandwidth;-) Not since I was using ISDN dialup in 1997. Outlook brings mail in from new to old so when migrating a user or setting up a new laptop for them they rarely notice their old mail isn't there for a few hours I have a lot of users with 35-40GB mailboxes, the new version of Outlook manages these without an issue, true the old Outlook 2011 would have fallen over but thats 6 year old code so to be expected Thanks for the link to those OWC drives. I've been hesitant to go with 3rd party SSD upgrades on the Mac Airs, but doing a bit of research now there are actually more options out there than I thought. These look pretty good too. It still feels wrong to have to throw $150+ of parts and labor into older machines just to get Outlook working right, when the Windows version does not have that issue. I'm glad Microsoft seems committed to getting things platform neutral now at least and realize that will probably take years to actually achieve complete parity. That is awesome you don't worry about preserving bandwidth.
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