tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930004102572847909.post7129601533825748435..comments2009-10-02T13:59:07.897-04:00Tuxxienoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930004102572847909.post-31275778816215670022009-10-02T13:42:00.998-04:002009-10-02T13:42:00.998-04:00I would be remiss not to mention NeoOffice, a Cocoa-based port of OpenOffice to OSX. The version which works with Snow Leopard is available now as a paid pre-release, but will be freely available to everyone by the end of October.Rhettiganhttp://cad.cx/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930004102572847909.post-32271427598083252512009-10-02T13:40:41.236-04:002009-10-02T13:40:41.236-04:00OpenOffice is excellent. When I started college in 2003, I was using OO.o 1.0 Write to write all of my papers and Calc do all of my discrete math work in spreadsheets. I believe OO.o 2.0 was about to be released.<br /><br />I used it all through college, and had only ONE occasion where OO.o didn&#39;t play nicely with the Word files, and that wasn&#39;t a bug, but a deficiency in how OO.o displayed it. It&#39;s been improved as of 3.0 to mirror how Word does it, and the interoperability is solid.<br /><br />While I agree with that portion of the post, I disagree with the sentiment about Macs. I bought my first Mac, a MacBook Pro, since a Performa 6320 I had in middle school. Why? The hardware is simply superior, as is the warranty. I couldn&#39;t find a PC laptop anywhere (NewEgg, Amazon, System76, retail stores, etc.) which has the higher-level graphics, high quality screen, and, most of all, battery life that my new Mac has.<br /><br />There&#39;s also something to be said about OSX&#39;s sleep/hibernate ability. It&#39;s simply unparalleled. Windows sleep/hibernate is a joke and Linux&#39;s sleep/hibernate only seems to work on certain hardware with a certain, almost holy configuration. Students need to be able to close the lid and go, and open it and be right back where they left off--reliably.Rhettiganhttp://cad.cx/noreply@blogger.com