eMac g4 help - Word Processing

[fleshman03]

Ok well my parents have a really old eMac G4 that I am going to have to fix tomorrow. They don't have a word processing program so that is the main question I have. Are there any decent free word processing programs out there? The machine runs 10.3 and here are its specs:

Order no. M8577LL/A
Processor 700MHz PowerPC G4
Memory 384MB
Hard drive 40GB Ultra ATA
Optical drive CD-RW
Graphics support NVIDIA GeForce2 MX with 32MB of DDR SDRAM
FireWire Two ports
USB Five ports
VGA video mirroring Yes
Modem 56K
Ethernet 10/100BASE-T

It used to have AppleWorks on it, but since I've reinstalled 10.3, it's no longer there. (I did a clean install.) Is there an option for it?

NeoOffice has a 512mb Ram requirement that isn't going to be met by this machine.

Also, the internet runs rather slow on it. I have no idea why. They have a 1.5 megabit connection. Any thoughts?

Would it be better to run it under 10.2?

 

[scanlanlee]

Try abiword should do the trick

 

[RainForRent]

Use Bean. It's free, it's fast, it's darn good.

 

[PeggyD]

AppleWorks is not installed by default when you do a restore from the original disks. This is most likely due to the fact that AppleWorks is not a multi-lingual application & the installer doesn't "know" which language version you want. Apple has written two articles, Knowledge Base article 300316 on installing AppleWorks 6 & Knowledge Base article 61802 on restoring the software than came with your Mac.