Toby wells wrote: Whats stopping you upgrading the MacBook Air.these aren't much more than a 2.5in SATA drive, we have used them in a lot of units. Outlook brings mail in from new to old so when migrating a user or setting up a new laptop for them they rarely notice their old mail isn't there for a few hours I have a lot of users with 35-40GB mailboxes, the new version of Outlook manages these without an issue, true the old Outlook 2011 would have fallen over but thats 6 year old code so to be expected. I cant remember the last time I even thought about preserving bandwidth -) Not since I was using ISDN dialup in 1997. Whats stopping you upgrading the MacBook Air.these aren't much more than a 2.5in SATA drive, we have used them in a lot of units. Outlook might have better performance with just a partial sync, but maybe not if they designed it right.Seems like there is more potential for sync errors.Wish I could just pop some of those in our aging Mac Air fleet! Even with a large drive I just don't see the point in syncing everything. OS X, Apps and odds and ends is 35GB, even with a 50GB Outlook file we have a lot of space left But thats relative to our policy of no data on devices. Good point on the cost of SSDs dropping. Macbook 'spinning wheel of death' when using office for mac 2011? When using office for mac 2011, and in particular Outlook, the 'spinning wheel' very often appears for up to 5 seconds at a time, interrupting my work. 4:42 AM in response to Neilo In response to Neilo. These older machines in general get a lot of spinning wheel action while using Outlook.

Question: Q: Spinning wheel during everyday Outlook usage. Ryan_w wrote: toby wells wrote: Two years ago yes But these days we are paying around 65 Euro for a 240GB SSD.

It will use more bandwidth and take longer when setting up Outlook for the first time.

Wish I could just pop some of those in our aging Mac Air fleet!Įven with a large drive I just don't see the point in syncing everything. Toby wells wrote: Two years ago yes But these days we are paying around 65 Euro for a 240GB SSD.

Outlook for mac spinning wheel of death