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RAM is not an issue - 262 Mb is more than enough. Main problem is redraw. Spend Your money on videocard that is good for 2D DTP (whatever is the company's name) and have enough memory on it, not for 3D games. Switch the redraw from PM preferences to "Standard". Switch of CMS, that also slows PM down (anyhow You can never compleatly relay on your monitor and have to use PANTONE color specifiers). Use mainly paragraph styles for formating text and try to avoid manualy formating text (this will help to avoid errors in saving etc). In the process of design use small resampled RGB images and replace them with real CMYK images only when the work is finished and ready to print - this will also speed You up. The number of fonts is no problem - I use daily 500 fonts on my PC and it never fails me. Use quality fonts (no matter if they are Type1 or TTF), not the ones You can find in internet. Never use copy>paste, only place images and only link them, never save them in Your file. EPS and AI are tricky because they have very slow preview images. So try to avoid them, if You want to work quickly. Quit all unnessesary programs (internet, e-mail, PhotoShop if You dont need it etc). And most of all - use PageMaker for what it is designed. This is for text-orientated layouts with bitmap images. Vector images (EPS and AI) allways slow Your PC down. If You want to use/draw lots of vector images in Your layout, use Freehand or CorelDraw for Your design. This is almost 10 years of experience speaking. PageMaker 6.52 is actually one of the "fastest guns in the west", if You know how to use it. And remember that computer is just a machine.  

Yours etc, Claudius