>Outlook 2010 in Exchange mode usually occupies about 50MB of memory, at least for me. Think of all the functionality Outlook 2010 has in those 50MB. Ohh I wis

>Outlook 2010 in Exchange mode usually occupies about 50MB of memory, at least for me. Think of all the functionality Outlook 2010 has in those 50MB. Ohh I wish my beloved thunderbird only took that much memory. I remember it occupied somewhere between 150-250MB on my netbook. It was impossible to keep it running in the background, especially when you only have 1GB of total RAM. My routine was to open, check for mail, close it.. rinse repeat.