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Re:Word Fails Me - Why doesn’t Microsoft’s writing tool actu... by adbge on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @09:59PM (#1363023)
Running Word 2010 off a SSD, I found startup to be near instantaneous. I was impressed with how responsive it was for an application with such a huge feature set.
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Re:Word Fails Me - Why doesn’t Microsoft’s writing tool actu... by patio11 on Thursday May 20, 2010 @12:42AM (#1363271)
Ditto here. I just tabbed back into Windows (had been doing some programming in VMWared ubuntu) and fired up MS Word. Less than a second to where I could start typing.

If there is anyone here who doesn't own a SSD yet, buy one this week. It is the single biggest performance improvement I've ever seen on a computer. Apps start fast, VMs start fast, browsers load fast, your interpreted language running in a VM that needs to load 400 files of libraries doesn't care because its fast, etc.

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