Optimising iMac Intel educational for office use.

Hello there,
We received new iMac Intel educational and they are fantastic looking, incredibly silent (I had to remove the clock from the wall because it's Tic-Tac was too loud) and many new features likes it's Mighty mouse and much more drove me crazy. It took me about half an hour to admirethem, open them and look at every little details before preparing them for office use.
Unfortunately, as we knew, the PPC applications (MS-Office, FileMakerPRO, Macromedia Studio 8 and Adobe CS-2) are too slow but thanks to Rosetta they are working.
Note that Studio 8 and CS2 are not used to create but only to "visualise" what the students have done as home work.
We plan to boost the RAM to 1 GB but is there any thing else I can do or configure to optimise them?
Thank you.
17" iMac Intel Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Congrats on the new Mac.
At this point, as long as they are PPC apps, more memory is the best thing that you can do. Also not open too many apps at the same time. Mac OS X + Rosetta + PPC apps eat a lot of RAM. As soon as they are Universal binaries you will notice an improved difference.
In fact I believe that Adobe CS 3 is available as a beta download to registered users of CS2, the beta is a Universal binary. Many of us have abandoned Office for Mac for NeoOfice a free, open source Ub replacement.

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