There’s another major change in the latest version of the software: OpenOffice 3 supports the OpenDocument 2.1 (ODF) standard, a popular format that’s used around the world, especially by government agencies. If you don’t need all the bells and whistles of Microsoft Office, check out 3, a free productivity suite that has many of Office’s capabilities. The suite requires at least 512MB of RAM and an Intel processor, with 400MB of space available on your hard drive. which is a collaborative effort from developers who donate their time-does not post the minimum processing speed to run the apps however, on a single-core 1.5GHz Intel Mac Mini with only 512MB of RAM, OpenOffice 3 was sluggish and crashed a few times. Calc, the spreadsheet program, also ran fast. I tested OpenOffice 3 on a MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz with 2GB of RAM the application formatted a 200-page novel at lightning speed-like I was using TextEdit.
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