Notes 8 Review
Well I’ve been using notes 8 for a little over a week now. It has lots of many new features which I definitely liked using. I really liked the more user friendly buttons and functions and how it looks like most of the other apps I work with. I also liked the integrated sidebar with IM, calendar, and RSS. It was however quite a resource hog though even on a newer system. I was running it on a laptop with a 1.7 Pentium M with 1GB of memory, but it seemed extremely sluggish. It also frequently crashed or gave me error messages. I sent them all off to IBM, but it actually became so troublesome that I went back to 7.0.2 because of all the errors. I would like to give the folks at IBM credit for coming up with an up-to-date GUI and similar functionality to other apps, but for a beta, I thought it was missing some things. The speed is going to need greatly improved. I do not think systems with 512 MB of ram will be able to run it. I also feel they need to fix the many bugs I came across. Hopefully they will get it all taken care of and by launch date it will be as great of a product that it has been advertised as.