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From: Lars Nooden on 9 Feb 2010 06:05 Alexandro Colorado wrote: > What I feel like is that there is the mistake to think that a netbook > is an internet appliance, but further from this. I strongly agree. In part it is isolated from the net because wireless and 3G are less than ubiquitous even in many towns, hotels, etc. Connectivity certainly cannot be relied upon when traveling. Even regular land-lines are not able to deliver the advertised rates. However, there is convergence in the phones and netbooks. Essential background information for any netbook debate would be to know the availability of wireless / 3G connections and the percentage of the population it is available to. By available, I mean actually there and able to use it, not a theoretical or vendor-specific or subscriber-specific lockin. Also relevant are bandwidth caps. > Basically Ubuntu is replacing free and open source software for > non-free applications. There. Fixed that for you. ;) However, open or closed, Google Docs is not up for any real work with ODF documents. > ... in reality, a netbook is more like a second computer for on-the > road. You still need the full functionality of a desktop system. Or a notebook. I'd bring up Ian's comment about phones. I also see convergence. The specs from my 2008 phone are in some ways better than my 2007 netbook. Where they differ is battery life, screen size and one has a keyboard plus ethernet and sd sockets. Now how much of that becomes useful in the future depends on the competency and intentions of the manufacturers... Regards /Lars --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe(a)openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help(a)openoffice.org
From: Lars Nooden on 9 Feb 2010 13:24
Alexandro Colorado wrote: >> I haven't looked at Gnumeric in 5 years, it's gotten a stigma lately >> and does not support ODF. It used to compare favorably to StarOffice, >> before OOo. ODF support is must-have and it may be that OOo is the only >> current option. Though there's been a lot of improvement to Koffice. > > I dissagree, KOffice is a much better alternative than Gnumerics - That's what I was getting at: KOffice has improved a lot. What was missing was a statement that it was already rather good. It's OOo's main complementary suite. /Lars --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe(a)openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help(a)openoffice.org |