Very slow performance. Numbers is pokey, that's for sure.
I'm mainly interested in using this thread to see how many others feel the same way; that Numbers is slow in general. At least on my machine it is. I get much better performance from the ancient MS Excel 2000 running in Windows XP via Parallels on the same machine. And XP is running in less than 400 megs of RAM!
I know it's a 1.0 release, but scrolling, opening .csv files, formatting multiple columns, all are slower than my old MS Excel. Given that Parallels is not multi-core aware, is virtualized, is running an 8 year old version of Excel, and is running in less than half the available RAM, I really expected Numbers running natively to make a better showing for itself.
I know it's a 1.0 release, but scrolling, opening .csv files, formatting multiple columns, all are slower than my old MS Excel. Given that Parallels is not multi-core aware, is virtualized, is running an 8 year old version of Excel, and is running in less than half the available RAM, I really expected Numbers running natively to make a better showing for itself.
iMac intel core duo 2.16 Ghz 1 meg of ram, Mac OS X (10.4.10)