Hmm,
Performance in a word processor is not just about "typing". Try to stuff big tables and
Excel worksheets into the doc (with graphs and all) and some other things. Word crawls
like a baby. It's quite possible for a word processor to be a burdon on the system.
While on the subject, there are al
er way to do it.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ogoldshmidt@;computer.org]
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 4:53 PM
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Subject: Re: Open Office VS. MS Office (performance)
Dvir Volk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I know it's not,
Dvir Volk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I know it's not, but still, 27 seconds to load swriter? WTF? Are they
> compiling it on the fly? :-) and it's not much better on linux.
That I can live with. However, in a few years of using Star Office and
recently Open Office for *viewing* Word-created d
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 November 2002 14:24, Dvir Volk wrote:
> > Btw, just checked it on my workplace machine (win2k, PIII500, 256MB RAM.
> > Why oh why don't they let me install linux here? :) ).
> > It took 27 seconds (!) to start swriter and 2.5 seconds to sta
Dvir Volk wrote:
I know it's not, but still, 27 seconds to load swriter? WTF? Are they
compiling it on the fly? :-) and it's not much better on linux.
Gimp for win loads in a reasonable time, more or less like paint shop
pro (5-7 seconds), and it's not native either.
I take it to mean you wil
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> From: Hetz Ben Hamo [mailto:hetz@;witch.dyndns.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 2:25 PM
> To: Dvir Volk; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Open Office VS. MS Office (performance)
>
>
> On Tuesday 12 November 2002 14:24, Dvir Volk wrote:
> > Btw, just check
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 14:24, Dvir Volk wrote:
> Btw, just checked it on my workplace machine (win2k, PIII500, 256MB RAM.
> Why oh why don't they let me install linux here? :) ).
> It took 27 seconds (!) to start swriter and 2.5 seconds to start msword
> XP.
Not exactly a fair compare, you kn
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> Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 2:06 PM
> To: Ira Abramov; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Open Office VS. MS Office (performance)
>
>
> > maybe I missed something, but are you saying your typing
> got up from
> > 10 to 30 words a minute just by changing off
> maybe I missed something, but are you saying your typing got up from 10
> to 30 words a minute just by changing office suites?
No,
I'm saying that time to run the program, flipping pages (page up, page down),
and the responsiveness was faster in word 2k then in open office..
Hetz
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On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> Oh, one more thing - with crossover office 1.3.1 I was finally able to write
> full hebrew documents without (almost) any problems, answer forums questions
> in hebrew (using Explorer under crossover office).
I also hear that a Klez detector was issued
Quoting Hetz Ben Hamo, from the post of Mon, 11 Nov:
> After I finished, I typed few pages in each of them, in open office's
> word processor, and in Word 2000. In each document I added tables and
> other stuff..
>
> I was surprised at one thing - the performance. Word 2k on this low
> end machine
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