Re: [tlug] Re: Stand Up for OpenOffice!!

[Dave M G <martin@example.com>]

Stephen,
> I'm afraid that pretty much everybody who has reported their
> satisfaction with OOo so far is running equipment well beyond the
> reach of most of my students.

If it helps, my girlfriend bought her laptop used for 10,000 - 15,000 
yen. I'm not sure exactly what the specs are - Pentium of some kind - 
but surely that's a student level purchase.

And she's fine with OOo. In fact, she didn't notice (more accurately, 
didn't care enough) that it wasn't MS Word. All of the functions she 
uses are pretty much in the same place in both programs, and it performs 
at least as well.

One thing I'm not really following in your postings where you are 
expressing that OOo is too slow for student level machines, is the idea 
that MS Office would be faster on an older machine. The latest MS Office 
can be just as big a resource hog as anything else.

ï--
Dave M G
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