Too complex (CorelDraw 9 Graphics Suite in general)

Member Name: ngen

Product:	CorelDraw 9 Graphics Suite in general
Date:	15/12/00 (132 review reads)
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Advantages: Handy tool for graphics.

Disadvantages: Too slow, too big ...

I have been using CorelDraw 9 for like 6 months. Perhaps I am too stupid. Till now, I am not still very familiar with most of the functions that CorelDraw 9 provides. I must admit that it is really a useful graphic tools for like drawing a picture, editing the photos (which I normally do because they are very simple tasks). However I reckon that there are more CorelDraw can provide.

CorelDraw has the following categories after you installed it in your PC:
1. Graphic utilities: has the functions Corel Capture 9 and CorelTrace 9.
2. Productivity tools: has function Duplexing Wizard
3. Setup and Notes: All the help documents (which I seldom use because it is very slow for my PC).
4. Corel-Photo Paint 9
5. CorelDraw 9

My PC is 333 MHz Pentium II processor with 64M RAM memory which I consider is a reasonably fast PC. However whenever I start CorelDraw 9 or Corel-Photo Paint 9, everything slows down. I have to wait like 30 to 45 seconds for it to start (which for me is too long). Additionally, it uses up most of my RAM and CPU which really sometimes get on my nerve because it crashes sometimes very easily. Also, it expend more than 1 Gigabytes of my harddisk (Oh man it is terribly huge to me).

Honestly I don't hate CorelDraw 9. In fact I think it is a pretty good tool for those who study or who work in graphical world. Perhaps I don't need it that much.

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