2008/6/20 W. Wayne Liauh <wp at hawaiilinux.us>: >> The second main difference is that the 901 comes >> pre-installed with StarOffice (mistakenly reported as >> "SunOffice", but I don't blame them. :-) ), instead >> of the OpenOffice.org in 900. > > Actually IMHO the name SunOffice sounds much much better, especially in light > of the fact that StarOffice has so drastically improved from when Sun first > acquired it. (Star Office 6.0 was the first "major" improvement because it > could be loaded in "slightly less than two big minutes"! Now OOo 2.4 loads > in just a couple of seconds.) Sun used to sell SunOffice (at least in > Japan), but stopped using the name after the StarOffice acquisition. Perhaps > it's time to consider going back to the old name (also in consideration of > the heavy entanglement b/t OpenOffice.org and Java/NetBeans)? > > As a side note, Sin-Yaw has decided to quit his adventure with the Asus 900. > One of the reasons is its pathetically short battery life (130 minutes). Too > bad, he should have waited a little longer, as I had suggested, and tried the > Atom-based 901 (280 minutes battery life running at power-saving mode). > > Rumor has it that Acer has ordered 1 million of Intel's Atom processors. > This market is getting interesting.
Sun Office sounds alot nicer. Everytime I hear 'Star Office', it reminds me of those cheap generic no-name brands, "Here is Microsoft office, and here is the budget branded StarOffice". Matthew
