In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 08:59:57AM +0800, Rob Phillips wrote: > >A - 1 Clone 2.4 GHz P4 (no HT), 512MB RAM, 40GB HD, WinXP - Office 2000 [...] > >D - 1 Powermac G5 1.6GHz, 1.25 GB RAM, 80GB HD, 10.3.4 - Office X, > >Office 2004, OpenOffice 1.1.2 (X windows) [...] > >Results (in minutes:seconds) > >A - 1:50 [...] > >D - 6:25, 11:20, 2:10 (results in order - Office X, Office 2004, OO 1.1.2)
Note the difference in D between MS Office and OO (OpenOffice?). This suggests that the issue lies with Microsoft's programming decisions rather than any inherent platform issue. Obviously, this impacts on *practical* usage, but it would probably be fair call it a superficial issue for which the "blame" lies with Microsoft. By the way, I normally rate OpenOffice as "slow", so it'd imagine that 2:10 can be improved upon. And, pro-rata with CPU speed, it's turned out better than Office 2000 on the P4 anyway -- not that such comparisons are to be heeded.
