On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 5:10 PM, David Paenson <davepo...@gmail.com> wrote: > I keep on thinking: wouldn't it be wonderful if OpenOffice was > available for tablets running Android? > > Yesterday I had to tell a student who had bought a cheap tablet > including external keyboard she had better resell it and buy instead a > netbook, so she could install OpenOffice for Linux or Windows.
No, it would be better if consumers educated themselves and purchased an AMD or Intel x86 based tablet (I favor AMD Fusion myself), where you can install ANY OS you want, including standard x86 Linux (Fedora, Ubuntu, etc), and run standard Apache OpenOffice, Firefox, and any software you want. See: http://ho.io/AMDTablet Video of AMD Fusion tablet running Ubuntu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfhP1cpGhHw Same tablet running ArchLinux http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSf4lBsExp0 The latest AMD Fusion tablets get 8-hours of 720p video playback on a battery charge, and the equivalent CPU horsepower of an AMD Sempron 3000... So, the notion that "tablets=limited" or "tablets=Android" irks me a lot. If you get an x86 tablet, you get all the power of a regular notebook, with a touch screen instead of keyboard... FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act - George Orwell
