[plug] Word97 vs Openoffice

[Chris Caston]

On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 16:28, Bernd Felsche wrote:
> On Saturday 28 August 2004 16:01, Brad Campbell wrote:
> > Chris Caston wrote:
> 
> > > Perhaps that would explain it. That is one of the other excuses I give
> > > for avoiding laptops in favour of a decent desktop + well synced PALM
> > > pda: the speed of the HD.
> 
> > Perhaps, but you can't spend 12 hours on an aircraft editing a 250 page
> > proposal or writing code on a PDA, nor can you use it to carry around all
> > your remote recovery/rescue software/systems.
> 
> You're *sick*.  A 250-page proposal?  I spend upwards of an hour per
> page drafting proposals.  Writing a proposal that'd be worth upwards
> of $25,000 is just stupid.

These 250-page proposals would be for Government tenders right?
Would anyone in private enterprise read a 250 page proposal from start
to finish? Would anyone in bureaucracy do it?

I wonder how big the proposal to migrate Parliament house in Canberra to
OSS would be? :) 
> 
> The job would have to be worth at least a million bucks.
> 
> One can of course write programs on a PDA. One can write 250-page
> documents on a PDA. One can store gigabytes of recovery software on
> compact-flash (or microdrive) that plugs into a PDA.
> 
> > I need a laptop to do what I need to do, and I need a laptop that
> > will support 12 hours on the go so it can't be a power hungry
> > desktop replacement that would make OOo acceptably fast.
> 
> Wait for the Athlon-64 mobile laptops... they can sleep between
> keystrokes.