[bovine3dom]

> LyX is also quite slow on very large documents like dissertations.

Have you tried it again in the last year or two? I've found that scrolling, for example, has become a lot faster since I first started using it.

[adrianmsmith]

Right, I wrote a 100 page document in LyX on a 2011 Mac Mini and it was fine. (Not sure what version of LyX.)

[wenc]

I have not, so this information may be outdated.