On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 7:02 AM, John Gardner wrote: > On my Acer netbook (Celeron/2GB RAM) things proceed - Deliberately. > Quite slowly, in fact. > > I'm supposing this is a hardware limitation; MPLAB is far & away the > largest app I run - Am I missing something? > There are many different types of Celeron. What is your Celeron (Family and Frequency)? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celeron The OS may matter as well. What is the OS? For example, Win7 x86 runs better with 2GB RAM than Win7 x64. But if you got more RAM, x64 may run faster. --=20 Xiaofan --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .