Mebster Posted October 12, 2006 Share Posted October 12, 2006 Compare and Contrast these three. (sounds like am english exam paper) Which is better and why? We're talking about speed, compatibility (MS's obviously better), ease of use, looks, memory usage, disk usage, bugs/crashes... etc. Let the community know what you think. Possibly even score them accordingly. Download Here: NeoOffice or OpenOffice (Note: Don't let money be a major factor but instead a minor, as we all know MS Office is expensive and the others are free.) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30004-ms-office-vs-neooffice-vs-openoffice/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
boo50 Posted October 12, 2006 Share Posted October 12, 2006 i like Microsoft Office 2004 but it's too slow ... i can't work with big excel files... unusable.... that is why i use and vote for NeoOffice 2.0 Aqua Beta 3.... and i'm waiting for new UB Microsoft office.... when it will out - i'm sure i will use it.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30004-ms-office-vs-neooffice-vs-openoffice/#findComment-207722 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mebster Posted October 12, 2006 Author Share Posted October 12, 2006 Although it seems people favour Microsoft Office over NeoOffice or OpenOffice.org it seems MS Office uses Rosetta where as the others run natively on Intel Macs. Surely that means they are faster? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30004-ms-office-vs-neooffice-vs-openoffice/#findComment-207728 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeilM Posted October 12, 2006 Share Posted October 12, 2006 All I know is that I do not like Openoffice on mac, because it has to open an X11 terminal to run which just bothers me for some reason. Anyone know of another way to get openoffice to open like a normal application? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30004-ms-office-vs-neooffice-vs-openoffice/#findComment-207800 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dark.developer Posted October 12, 2006 Share Posted October 12, 2006 NONE! NONE! NONE! NONE! NONE! NONE! NONE! NONE! NONE! NONE! NONE! NONE! NONE! NONE! NONE! NONE! Actually, all seems to slow down the PC, the best is "ThinkFree Office" blazingly fast on a HACKINTOSH!!!! THANKS! "Live and Let Live!!!" Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30004-ms-office-vs-neooffice-vs-openoffice/#findComment-207862 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mebster Posted October 12, 2006 Author Share Posted October 12, 2006 boo50, thanks for sharing your thoughts and the reason as to your final decision. NeilM, it actually opens a terminal? I would have to uninstall that right away if I had it. dark.developer, thanks for your suggestion. I've haven’t heard of "ThinkFree Office" and will definitely look into it. Is it a free app? Seems you are required to register to the site. That's a bit of a letdown even though you get 1GB online storage. I can't seem to be able to add "ThinkFree Office" to the current poll. Anyone knows how to do it? Keep your suggestions coming in. Office is such a major part of most people life. It matters that you make the right choice in which you use. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30004-ms-office-vs-neooffice-vs-openoffice/#findComment-208042 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nastyhome Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 Anyone else got a nice constructive opinion? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30004-ms-office-vs-neooffice-vs-openoffice/#findComment-209767 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superhai Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 Thinkfree download http://product.thinkfree.com/download/dl_mac.jsp?strlang=en Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30004-ms-office-vs-neooffice-vs-openoffice/#findComment-209769 Share on other sites More sharing options...
spikeh Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 While I like to use OpenOffice, I'm using Microsoft Office because it's what my school uses on their systems. While I know OO is fully capable of opening Microsoft Office .doc files, if I open a .doc that was created at school and save it at home with OO; it looks different if I work at school again. I also use a template, which again due to different renderings, I use Microsoft Office. I have not used any productivity suites in OSx86 yet, but I'll try Microsoft first. I installed it for fun and because I can, so I don't really plan on using it as my main operating system. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30004-ms-office-vs-neooffice-vs-openoffice/#findComment-209944 Share on other sites More sharing options...
suleiman Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 To be honest I'm just holding my breath for the next release of Office for the Mac, and I REALLY hope that it's got some feature parity close to that of its windows counterpart. Office 2007 is a sleek, smart, well-put together interface. If only the same could be said of Vista. =P Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30004-ms-office-vs-neooffice-vs-openoffice/#findComment-209994 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deltatux Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 I'm using OpenOffice, but I voted for NeoOffice (which is essentially just a rewrite of OpenOffice in Java and using the Aqua interface). The reason is that my Hackintosh is too slow for running heavy duty Java apps. deltatux Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30004-ms-office-vs-neooffice-vs-openoffice/#findComment-210082 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nastyhome Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 They all dont sound so promising... Are they all painfully slow or something? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30004-ms-office-vs-neooffice-vs-openoffice/#findComment-210145 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mebster Posted October 21, 2006 Author Share Posted October 21, 2006 Seems MS Office and NeoOffice have simular support. Not sure which one to try. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30004-ms-office-vs-neooffice-vs-openoffice/#findComment-213706 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mebster Posted October 28, 2006 Author Share Posted October 28, 2006 Has anyone tried both MS Office and NeoOffice and has any opinions on them they can share? Like speed, reliability, compatibility... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30004-ms-office-vs-neooffice-vs-openoffice/#findComment-218290 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mebster Posted November 7, 2006 Author Share Posted November 7, 2006 I need to install one of the applications listed on a 350Mhz G3 with 128MB memory (will update this to 512Mb hopefully) and around 5GB of disk space left free. What would be a more ideal Office suite to use for now (128MB) and later (512MB)? Thanks for any help Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30004-ms-office-vs-neooffice-vs-openoffice/#findComment-227874 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjur Posted November 7, 2006 Share Posted November 7, 2006 I use neo office because it's free and doesn't require X11. on windows i use open office. i don't use ms office at all as that's not a freeware. i know there are still some incompabilities between ms office and the free products, but i'm not going to spend so much money to buy ANY ms product Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30004-ms-office-vs-neooffice-vs-openoffice/#findComment-227962 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nastyhome Posted November 7, 2006 Share Posted November 7, 2006 MS Office 2004 on Mac seems a bit slot on startup, other than that...it doesnt look so bad... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30004-ms-office-vs-neooffice-vs-openoffice/#findComment-228233 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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