OK... find another statement of mine that fits this pattern. I don't know why people are saying iTunes for Windows is faster then Windows Media Player for Windows. Maybe iTunes is faster on a Mac than WMP for the Mac, but that doesn't mean it's the same way in Windows. Anyways, I'm in the rather slow process of installing iTunes (and QuickTime, which is lovingly bundled with it) now. And 5300cs, Windows Media Player 6.4 is still part of Windows XP, and it can do everything WMP 9 can, just without the fancy UI. Internet Explorer can also be "uninstalled" ever since Windows XP SP1, it just can't be completely removed since lots of the Windows GUI uses HTML.
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OK... find another statement of mine that fits this pattern. I don't know why people are saying iTunes for Windows is faster then Windows Media Player for Windows. Maybe iTunes is faster on a Mac than WMP for the Mac, but that doesn't mean it's the same way in Windows. Anyways, I'm in the rather slow process of installing iTunes (and QuickTime, which is lovingly bundled with it) now. And 5300cs, Windows Media Player 6.4 is still part of Windows XP, and it can do everything WMP 9 can, just without the fancy UI. Internet Explorer can also be "uninstalled" ever since Windows XP SP1, it just can't be completely removed since lots of the Windows GUI uses HTML.
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Oh ok, anyways if you do not like Office, you do not need X11, there is a version of OpenOffice for the Mac.
aethier
Originally posted by 5300cs
Well, I'm not at all proud of it, but I do use Word- it doesn't mean that I like it though (I don't want to use X11 just to use an Office suite.) It's just about the only app on my machine that'll quit unexpectedly (besides Safaribut w/Panther it's been OK)
I totally agree, AppleWorks it pretty crappy (if that's what you're talking about.) Sorry Apple, but get to work on improving AW or give it away for free. I like Keynote, but since I never do presentations, it's gathering dust as well.
Oh ok, anyways if you do not like Office, you do not need X11, there is a version of OpenOffice for the Mac.
aethier
Word and Office in general run really quickly for me. The only problem is that there are quite a few graphical glitches whenever you move text around or cut text and get artifacts remaining from the original text in Word. If anyone doesn't want Keynote, they surely could give it to me, though.
What is the minimum requirements to run Longhorn??
iJon How much HD space, memory, and CPU must you need to run it.
iJon How much HD space, memory, and CPU must you need to run it.
i dont know, but it is pretty sluggish on my p4 2ghz, 512 ram, geforce 4 ti4400. i installed it on a slave 30gb hard drive and it says now 11% taken up. so i guess around 3 gb. and i was disappointed to find out itunes doesnt work so i will be switching back to xp soon on my main drive. text is much nicer and smoother on longhorn, made me feel on i was on OS X
iJon
Ouch.
Well thats exactly the same kind of system I'm using right now; P4 2Ghz with 40G HD with 400Mhz system bus and 512MB 266DDR SDRAM.
Think I'll move onto WinXP Pro.....until next year when I'll be able to move onto Panther and a PowerMac G5.
Well thats exactly the same kind of system I'm using right now; P4 2Ghz with 40G HD with 400Mhz system bus and 512MB 266DDR SDRAM.
Think I'll move onto WinXP Pro.....until next year when I'll be able to move onto Panther and a PowerMac G5.
Re: Ouch.
iJon
yeah definently, xp is a great system and i enjoy it very much. i just wanted to see what longhorn was like. it is nice and it didnt surprise me that it is sluggish, it i still 3 years away from primetime. really all it felt like was xp witha new color and rearanged stuff here and there. but once you get a g5 and panther no windows system will ever compare. windows xp is great for windows and pc's. but if you compare it to panther...well there really is no comparison.
iJon
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I did some poking around on the site, and they don't plan an aqua openoffice.org until the new interfaces are hammered out for 2.0 (it makes sense, why spend a lot of effort porting a version that's already hitting eol). That's scheduled for about the longhorn release, but I would assume the alpha / beta versions will be fairly usable.
I haven't used the X11 version on OSX much, but playing around it seemed stable. In general the 1.x series of OOo will do everything 90% of the populace needs. If you use styles and automatic formatting heavily, you might get a bit frustrated.
Originally posted by 5300cs
Thanks for the pointer, but I'm not seeing it when I go to openoffice.org. All I see is "Mac OS X (X11)"
Is ThinkFree Office any good? Anyone here used it?
I did some poking around on the site, and they don't plan an aqua openoffice.org until the new interfaces are hammered out for 2.0 (it makes sense, why spend a lot of effort porting a version that's already hitting eol). That's scheduled for about the longhorn release, but I would assume the alpha / beta versions will be fairly usable.
I haven't used the X11 version on OSX much, but playing around it seemed stable. In general the 1.x series of OOo will do everything 90% of the populace needs. If you use styles and automatic formatting heavily, you might get a bit frustrated.