Are Mac's better for large Excel files

[RussellP]

I have a Sony Vaio laptop provided by work, which is faster than my old HP, bu it still takes ages to process spreadsheets (I use a lot of files in 5M plus but with lots of vlookups / sumifs) Is a MAC going to be faster??

I am already turning off auto calculate and reducing the autosave frequency to make things faster.

Thanks!!

 

[RoryA]

Depends on the spec, but generally doubtful, especially if you are using Mac Excel which I generally find slower.

 

[Firefly2012]

What version of Excel are you using? I've always been very dismissive of Excel 2007 (on a PC) but I must say it was substantially faster today to recalculate a fairly complex spreadsheet than compared to the old xl2002 I previously used. If you are on an old legacy version of Excel, you may therefore notice improvement simply by upgrading the software.