Even making SSIS (SQL Server) work in it is not bad, since Excel is 32 bit only. There are ways around all of it I have found, and having a lot of RAM really !!! really helps the speed of the computer. Samsung will show you in its You Tube videos how slow hard drives really are. They loaded all of Office from scratch in 1/2 a second with about 2 gigabytes per second load speed. RAM = cache = speed. Definitely worth it for me.