Re: [tlug] Open mouth, insert foot, defend Office.org

[mcooper <mcooper@example.com>]

On Jan 28, 2007, at 12:33 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> (3) Both of my Macs qualify by your standards for "new(er) computer",
> although one of them only by a couple of weeks.  Macs do *not*
> prestart Word or Excel, but normally I can open a network file in
> under 10 seconds.  OOo used to take a minute from hard disk at
> v. 1.CompletelyUnusableOnAMac, now it takes 3.5 to 4 from a mounted
> disk image.  But even on a 14-month-old 4-core Opteron box at 1.8 GHz
> with 8 GB of memory (4 GB per CPU) OOo ain't exactly snappy.  Also,
> out of the box it was unable to display Japanese in a bulletin that I
> receive weekly.  Not to mention being unable to open a Word Perfect
> document (this is zettai fukaketsu if you have dealings with American
> lawyers).

Try NeoOffice on the Macs. On the Mactel iMac, it runs very well.