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MoneyWell

MoneyWell

Personal finance software that helps you control your spending.

Version:  1.4.12

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performance is still unacceptable on G4

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Contributed by: bernie90210 Wednesday, May 21 2008 @ 05:29 AM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Recommend Product: NO

I want to echo Andrew Wedlake's comments. The performance of version 1.3.3 is so poor as to make the program unusable a PowerBook G4/1.67 Ghz. The developer claims to have improved performance on Intel processors, but I'm not sure why it still isn't acceptable on a computer that is less than three years old. This is software that manages personal finances, not one that performs real-time video processing or something really processor-intensive; Quicken is a speed demon by comparison. In addition, although the developer has been quick to respond to email, I don't find him to have been very responsive about this issue, as it has dragged on for months.   

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performance is still unacceptable on G4 - kevinmhoctor

Performance on a G4 chip is not what we'd like but our speed increases are real. We have seen dramatic boosts on modern multi-core chips that ship with all the current Macs. Even though MoneyWell is not crunching graphic transformations, it is giving you real-time feedback on your balances, money left in buckets, and updating a graph. This can be CPU intensive.

We will continue to improve performance on all supported platforms and we do test on older G4 systems.

Kevin Hoctor, MoneyWell Developer

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Wednesday, May 21 2008 @ 11:05 AM PDT