Recommended PC Hardware

["Maurine McCourry" <Maurine dot McCourry at hillsdale dot edu>]

I found the following exchange in the list archives.  I'm wondering if 1) The increased speed did indeed help at Greenwich Library, and 2) If anyone else has any thoughts on this topic.  I didn't find many replies in the archives.  We're wondering if upgrading our staff machines would help much with problems like slow opening of the Millennium client.  We're already using Pentium III processors with 512 MB RAM, but Millennium takes at least two minutes to open, even on machines that use the module being opened every day, and it slows all other applications being used down significantly in the process.

Thanks in advance for any information.

Maurine McCourry
Technical Services Librarian
Hillsdale College
maurine dot mccourry at hillsdale dot edu



Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 16:58:41 -0400 
From: "William Gray" <wgray at xxxxxxxxxx> 
Subject: RE: minimum PC hardware? 

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I seem to recall that a 2.4 GHz processor with 512 MB RAM (if not
better) was deemed necessary for Release 2003, as recommended by other
IUGers. The minimum specs given by III weren't all that realistic,
especially if you like to run other programs simultaneously on the same
computer (like, say, a Web browser). We are currently using 400MHz
processors with 128MB RAM, and at times Millennium can be painfully
slow, or will freeze up altogether (we recorded 80 instances in a
1-month period, and I don't believe every incidence got recorded, so
there were likely more); we're due for computer upgrades after the turn
of the fiscal year in July, so feel free to ask me again then how well
Millennium works with the improced computer speed.

--William Gray
Library Technical Assistant, Lending Services
Greenwich Library

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From: taysomd at xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:taysomd at xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 12:12 PM
To: innopac at xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: taysomd at xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: minimum PC hardware?

We have finally gotten the (tentative) go ahead to move from character
to Millennium this next fiscal year. I know this will require upgrading
/replacing PCs. However, looking at the minimum configuration listed on
Csdirect I recall a fair amount of discussion on the list in the past to
the effect that that configuration is woefully inadequate. I tried
searching the archives with no results, I guess it's too early monday
morning for my brain to be functioning. :-(

Could someone chime in with what the group generally considers to be a
recommended configuration for PCs (for staff machines) as opposed to a
minimum configuration?

thanks,

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Dan Taysom
Computer Services Librarian
U.C. Hastings Law Library
taysomd at xxxxxxxxxx


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