Open Office 3.0 native for Mac.

Mon, 10/13/2008 - 1:11pm — Seth Weintraub

TUAW points us to the news that Open Office 3.0 native for Intel Macs is live. If you are tired of (paying for) Microsoft Office and not ready to make the move to Google Docs, Open Office is a nice, free altrnative. It is also much faster than the Java-based (but loved) Neo-Office (based on the same codebase).

Download

(note: the site is up and down due to unprecedented demand - their words, not ours)

( Filed Under:

Industry Intelligence

)

Comments

finally

Mon, 10/13/2008 - 1:21pm — 9to5Mac Noob (not verified)

finally

iWorks works the best ;)

Mon, 10/13/2008 - 1:45pm — dzhiurgis (not verified)

iWorks works the best ;)

Kinda slow and crashy. But a

Mon, 10/13/2008 - 2:28pm — 9to5Mac Noob (not verified)

Kinda slow and crashy. But a nice free alternative to iwork and Office.

Aweful. Even slower than MS

Mon, 10/13/2008 - 2:29pm — 9to5Mac Noob (not verified)

Aweful. Even slower than MS Word in Rosetta.

No Outline View. Despite lots of requests, open office development still isn't working on it.

Cannot complain. Its free

Mon, 10/13/2008 - 2:50pm — 9to5Mac Noob (not verified)

Cannot complain. Its free after all!!!

change the amount of Graphic RAM

Mon, 10/13/2008 - 3:42pm — 9to5Mac Noob (not verified)

And it will fly faster than any Office/iwork or anything.

I was considering it slow but then I changed the amount of ram the program handles and it made a huge difference. Nearly instantaneous boot and flashy opening documents.

And no, it is NOT slower than MS word on Rosetta.

Go to Preferences/memory and play with it.

Hot damn

Mon, 10/13/2008 - 4:06pm — 9to5Mac Noob (not verified)

Heck, MS word on Rosetta is WAY faster that MS-Word 2008.

Now THAT'S a dog for you. It's like they forgot to performance tune the thing.

well, once I added some ram to the cache of this application...

Mon, 10/13/2008 - 5:11pm — 9to5Mac Noob (not verified)

it is a way faster than word 03 in my imac C2D 2.16.

To be more precise: Before

Mon, 10/13/2008 - 5:23pm — 9to5Mac Noob (not verified)

To be more precise:

Before changing the Cache RAM the time needed to boot a 1.2MB spreadsheet made in MS Office was around 20 to 25 seconds. But I am talking about right clicking on the document and opening it with Open Office.

After changing the amount of cache RAM for the app and objects, the timing was 5 seconds. Not that bad. No?