>>You need to upgrade from your PII-400.<<
Sometimes it seems like I have a TRS-80 and am loading from a cassette tape.
I have a corporate-issued fully-loaded Dell E4310 — memory at max (4G), plenty of available disk, math co-processor, bitslice enabled, DOS partition set at 64K, FAT turned on (OK, all the last are just old Windows jokes)...
But it is the latest and greatest and Office 2010 still drags it down lower than moochele at a Hawaiian buffet.
>>OK, all the last are just old Windows jokes
I was a HIMEM.SYS bada** back in the day. I’d get all the drivers and crapola up there for max availability of the lower 640k of RAM.
Win7 really likes 8G of RAM in my experience. Does OK with 4, but really likes 8, especially if you keep a lot of stuff open, which I tend to do.