Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / January 2005

A PP presentation I give every few months has started to act very
sluggish.  It has many slides, some with 3 or 4 large pictures on them.

I was running the presentation on an older Mac G4 PowerBook running OS
10.2.3 and it seemed to run just fine.  (I can't recall the processor
speed but I am guessing it was about 600 MHz). There was a slight delay
transitioning to a page with 3 or 4 large pictures, but it was almost
not noticeable.  Unfortunately, I don't know the PP version on this
machine.

I am now trying to run the same presentation on a new 1.33GHz iBook G4,
running OS 10.3.7.  It is awful!  I can count to six after requesting
the next page before it actually displays.  Effectively, it is useless
for my needs.  I can't make this presentation with such a delay.  This
machine runs PP version 11.1.0.

Today, I gave this presentation twice.  The first time on a Mac G5
running OS 10.3.6.  The delay, while still there, was less noticeable -
maybe 1 or 2 seconds, certainly not 4 or 5.

The second time was on a PC - have no idea what model or operating
system.  The response on this system was incredibly crisp!  Absolutely
no delay whatever.  Ask for the next PP slide and, voila, there it was.

Has anyone heard of this problem?

By the way, I feel almost, but not absolutely, certain it is a Mac OS
problem, and not a PowerPoint issue because I have tried the
presentation on a new Dual Processor G5, and an older G4, both runnning
OS 10.3.7.  Even with the super fast G5, there is the same,
unreasonable, delay in transitioning from slide to slide.
Thanks
Manley