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Hi qual software users and experts, Leading on from a comment made to a previous thread about which software packages would suit the poster's situation of limited resources in Malawi - I am interested in your experiences with NVivo7 on different computer specifications. I'm a PhD student in Australia who has a university supplied Dell laptop (running WinXP, 1.4Ghz processor, 512mb RAM, 40G hard drive). Although this is technically enough power to run the program, I've only just begun putting data into it and it is starting to crash and/or run very slowly. I haven't really tested it yet as there is much more data to be entered. David, your comments indicate that the problem is with the specifications of my system. Could anyone comment on what would be the ideal system, or at what point I am likely to see the program run smoothly? I have been asked to run some different scenarios (eg. storing the data file on my external hard drive which is faster apparently) and then they may look to get me an upgrade. Any experiences from this list would be gratefully received. Thank you Monica Monica Barratt PhD Student National Drug Research Institute http://db.ndri.curtin.edu.au/staff.asp?persid=650 http://www.linkedin.com/in/mbarratt ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Cairns <[log in to unmask]> Date: 25 Sep 2007 03:09 Subject: Re: Please help!!! Qualitative Software To: [log in to unmask] [snip] I agree with the earlier comment about NVivo 7. It's powerful but demands lots of memory (2 Gb) a fast processor (preferably dual core) and a fast (7200 rpm) hard disk. In my experience it's been quite stable since SP4.