Is a lot of extra RAM (>32 Gb) and processor speed (>2.7 Ghz) worth it with Articulate Products?

May 04, 2017

I'm not sure where to post this but I have all the products in Articulate 360 and use presenter most.  It's very slow in compiling the courses for LMS at the end.  Typically 10 to 15 minutes for most of my courses,  These course probably average 60 to 100 screens (yes, there's my problem!).  Short of breaking my already numerous courses into even smaller modules, would upgrading from my current Win7 pro laptop 32 Gb of Ram and Core I7 ~ 2.7 Ghz processor with 2 Tb SSD make a big different?

Because of the severe limitations that Articulate software has on "collaboration", I can't really go out an buy a huge deskt0p machine as I travel a lot and with nearly 100 Articulate courses, creating and exchanging and keeping track of Articulate "Packages" between these computers will be a nightmare.

So I'm stuck working with one computer only and wondering if paying a lot more money to upgrade to the absolute highest amount of RAM I can and the absolute fastest processor I can get on a laptop, is likely to be worth it? 

Any feedback on this?  I had to leave Win 7 where everything is relatively stable in my system as a whole, especially with my reliance on Office 2010 which has served me well.

Thanks everyone, Jim

And perhaps if I've missed the boat on the whole collaboration thing (Articulate review doesn't help a lot as the links don't work in it and that's half the battle)... does anyone have an efficient system using articulate products that allows you to easily collaborate among developers and SME's?

 

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Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard

Hi Jim,

I saw you were discussing the issue with your links not working in Articulate Review with Alyssa here - so I'll touch base with her as well in regards to next steps and what could be causing the linked items to not work. 

Hopefully the community will be able to weigh in on their system specs and the results they've seen. 

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