Open Office is now native on the MacIntel machines and runs much faster than NeoOffice. So if you have intel inside, go with OpenOffice. You can run Open OFfice on X-11 if you have a G-3 or G-4. I find that Open Office does nearly everything that Microsoft Office does, and if you are used to the way Microsoft Office runs you should be comfortable in Open Office. Neo Office is very slow, but once it has opened it is tolerable.
I also have iWorks, and use Template a lot and prefer it to the presentation software in Open Office or Power Point. But I find that Numbers is not quite as useful as Open Office and Excel. As far as pages goes, it is a nice program, but I usually use Text Edit or the Word Processor in Open Office. - Duffey On Aug 8, 11:56 am, Dana Collins <dlcatft...@verizon.net> wrote: > Greetings, > I am tagging onto Arnel's prior post re: Ubuntu/Linux - starting new > thread to avoid high-jacking his. > I quote: > On 8/7/09 11:45 PM, Arnel Tuazon of a.tua...@gmail.com sent > (quote) > > > > > Well I thought I'd give my old iBook G3 some new life by installing Jaunty > > Jackalope as I kept hearing about Ubuntu and how great it is. All I can say > > is if you're a regular Joe computer user, Linux is still not for you IMHO. > > etc... > > In the end I installed Tiger and the iBook is actually > > working pretty smoothly. I installed NeoOffice over MS Office to see how > > much faster it is. I am impressed with it. I may try YDL some time in the > > future with maybe my G4/1.6GHz Powermac and see how that goes. > > > iBook G3/700 > > 648MB RAM > > 30GB hd > > (end quote) > > My question: how do you folks feel about NeoOffice vs. Open Office > (either being used as a substitute for MS Office)? > Any pros/cons? Preference of one over the other? I am interested in > hearing what you have to say. > > Many thanks, > Dana --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
