I need to put in 7,000 names, addresses, notes, etc. and load Microsoft Access. Can this laptop handle this?
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I don't see why not. Mine handles Office Suite, browsers with half a dozen tabs open, lots of simultaneous opened Word docs, and one of the biggest memory hogs of all time: Photoshop. I haven't run into a memory problem yet.
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I have not tried to do that, but the Owner's Guide says it can store up to 25 telephone numbers and names (phone numbers up to 24 digits and names up to 15 characters)
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I haven't had that experience, but I am having trouble with the 64 gig memory. I have windows 8 and Office 365 installed and I am out of storage space. Get wierd freezes and messages pretty often now. No way to upgrade the storage either, as far as I know.
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Easily. Since email isn't stored on the computer, unless you specifically do it, it's not there anyway. I use the Surface as a web browsing device mostly and save little. I haven't made a dent in the storage. and besides, you get 200Gb on SkyDrive which is a huge amount, AND, unlike iPads, you can actually add a micro SDHD or SDHX chip for more storage. Memory isn't a problem for me. If you play intense games (I don't) the 64 might be worth considering.
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Thanks everyone for all your feedback. It has been very useful. I think I will go with this, in order to avoid compatibility issues with my documents, even though my word and excel docs are not too complicated, but googledocs has been limiting...I think I can handle a boot time of < 30 secs with Windows 8. So, I will shoot for that, and see how it goes... Traditionally, I have chosen to stay away from new Windows releases, to give Microsoft a chance to iron out the bugs... but, it looks like this one isn't too bad... :-)Thanks again.Mike.
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Yes, I manage two (although from a laptop). I'm sure there must be a maximum number, but can certainly do several. You give each an identifying name to keep them apart.
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I am not familiar with the programs you are running. With that said, I run WrightSoft which uses a lot of memory and was slow to open. The program opens much faster, and I don't have to run a restart between jobs. This "used to be" done to clear the cache so I wouldn't have high memory usage warnings. QuickBooks was another slow to open program. No longer. I believe that the drives "Learns" to assist with the most used programs. I was a doubter before installation, but figured the speed couldn't get any worse.
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I've actually had both the 32 and 64. I originally went with the 32, found it was missing Office, returned it, and decided I liked it enough to trade up to a 64 since it wasn't a lot more expensive.To be honest, a 32 is probably fine for most normal office work. If you're planning on adding a ton of apps and games, that's what will make it a bit tight. You can add a 64-128 GB microSD and install everything on there instead, move all user folders to it, etc. which would also work.
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Sure. It's a pretty massive monitor, so just using it for email might be a bit of overkill. One very nice feature is that it;s almost as good as having two monitors, because there's plenty of screen space to have two windows open side-by-side. I use a lot of spreadsheets, and I need to jump back and forth between programs, so it's particularly good for me.
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I use it with InDesign and Photoshop a lot and for the most part it is pretty speedy--I tend to have lots of photos and a couple of documents open all at once. If 16 gigabytes RAM had been an option I would have gotten it, but I haven't had any problems so far.
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Hello, I run a smaller office, the manual says it should work over 1000 users..
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I would suggest you get a later version that would allow for more ram to be added. This machine is slow. Could be a headache for tasks that require heavy files or working with programs that require speed. I use this for documents and internet surfing.
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I can't be of much help yet; I bought the laptop for my Ph.D disseration in Economics and haven't yet begun to gather the tons of data I'll need. So I should find out soon. Using Windows 8 has been difficult. Totally unintuitive.
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Yes. But its a lot of data and it takes a while to copy to the local drives.
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I think it would be fine, it has plenty of power for that. A nice free Office package is "Kingsoft Office" I highly recommend it, you may also want to buy a micro SD card to expand your storage too.
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It has been some time since I did this, year before last I think. So I don't really remember. As I got into it, it went pretty fast. It will also depend upon the speed of your computer, your software. Another recommendation is to get a external drive to save them onto. Your computer will fill up, get slower the more you do.
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ABSOLUTELY. It lugs down markedly when multi-tasking, but if speed isn't your whole world, it's fine. Right now, I'm running about 20 tabs in chrome, a few in explorer, quicken 2013, word, excel, AND a tiny 3rd-party program and it's chugging along!