Numbers 09 - A lot of Data & A lot of Formulas = SLOW

Hey guys,
I am currently using Numbers to graph things from a POS database. I am using an export with about 8100 rows and 6 columns. I am pumping this through A LOT of formulas (about 8000 in a rough count (~40 in a column and 200+ columns)). Most of these are COUNTIFS and SUMIFS. The documents takes around 15 minutes to open on a 2.4ghz Core2Duo iMac w/2gb of RAM and 20+ on a 2.0ghz CoreDuo Macbook Pro w/ 2gb of RAM.
Does anyone have some ideas on how to speed up the calculations that are going on?
Any Numbers gurus out there who want to share some optimization tricks?
Message was edited by: Cabalist -- formatting

Numbers'09 is faster but even so it is not made for huge spreadsheets.
Numbers will be much faster with smaller tables on multiple sheets which it is made for. You are also getting close to the column import limit of 255, can you split them up ?
If you really need to work with that size spreadsheet Excel, Neo Office or Open Office would probably work far better for you. Keep Numbers and all it's many attributes for home use

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