Conclusion Individual users of ACT! must balance their hardware investment, expectations for application performance, customer and prospect expectations, business needs, and reasonable ROI, when considering ACT! performance. They can also consider their work habits—for example, using ACT! with multiple additional applications open reduces operational performance speed. From a hardware perspective, to get optimum ACT! startup performance, select a PC equipped with at least 1 GB RAM, a 2 GHz or better CPU, and hard drive speed of 7200 RPM or better. This configuration will also deliver the most advantageous operational performance. |