tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685203.post3087616774887472310..comments2008-12-12T14:14:27.197-05:00Andy Donaldsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14295083854547806440noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685203.post-65391188875629759532008-12-12T14:14:00.000-05:002008-12-12T14:14:00.000-05:00We've done a fairly extensive pilot on 8.0.1 and that was met with a luke warm response. We have plenty of machines running with 1 GB (or less!!) of memory around this company and we didn't even attempt it on something with less than 1 GB.<BR/><BR/>8.0.2 WAS faster and has met with a much better response. While I'm talking about speed, startup speed is one key, but simply the over all responsiveness of the client was slower than you'd like to see when you took 8.0.1 and coupled it with only a GB of RAM. <BR/><BR/>Get more RAM? Not always feasible in a company with a lot of 2-3 year old PCs. Budgets like it better when they cycle through hardware slowly and 2+ years ago, 1 GB of RAM was considered plenty. <BR/><BR/>So Andy nailed it on the head, 8.0.2 is better...Merchanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18078700304440117387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685203.post-21911301428962249232008-11-13T10:54:00.000-05:002008-11-13T10:54:00.000-05:00As a Notes Admin, I installed the Standard Client (Admin and Designer as well) first. I love pretty much everything... except the number of times a day I have to reboot. I have 1Gb of memory and did some 'tweaking' as recommended Andrew's blog and it seems to load faster. However, if I have both the Notes Client and the Admin Client open at the same time, it will lock my system up 90% of the time if I try to open an attachment (.doc or .xls with MS Office). Get's pretty frustrating.<BR/><BR/>As far as the roll-out to my users... we've hit a snag as approx. 30% of my users are still on Windows 2000 Pro. I've been able to install on desktops, but it won't run. So, I have to set it to use the Basic Client. On the laptops, it won't even install. We're trying to decide where we go from here.Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02568774132277877263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685203.post-4715518995409349952008-11-12T23:35:00.000-05:002008-11-12T23:35:00.000-05:00you may also want to look into obtaining Notes 8.0.2 CCH1 and/or Notes 8.0.2 HF66 from IBM Lotus Support and see if either one of those help also.<BR/><BR/>HTH,<BR/>Tim E. BrownAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685203.post-61842255414177956582008-11-12T15:12:00.000-05:002008-11-12T15:12:00.000-05:00Andy,<BR/><BR/>If you have 2Gb then use 768 rather than 512. With 3Gb 1024 flies!<BR/><BR/>HTH,<BR/>Bobbbrod1http://openid.aol.com/bbrod1noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685203.post-37833524948462145832008-11-12T14:03:00.000-05:002008-11-12T14:03:00.000-05:00I am very fond of the ability to float any section in the sidebar and then move it anyplace on my 2 screens.Lotus Evangelisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11107190540208956954noreply@blogger.com