On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Gary <gary@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "They are designed for big, power-hungry CPUs." > This actually isn't true. They are "designed" for features, not hardware. The CPU is irrelevant. Only graphics/video intensive applications are designed specifically with the hardware in mind, and even then they are designed for the GPUs, not the CPUs. The truth is that they (office applications) are designed from the ground up with portability in mind, not specific architectures. If it were true, then there would only be a version for a single OS and architecture, and even if they did port them to different OSs and architectures the versions would be significantly different, and that's not the case. The point is to allow people with completely different hardware to work on exactly the same files with the same level of control and similar interfaces. I can use OOo, Firefox or Thunderbird on Linux or Windows without having to relearn anything or do without features, and even the menus are mostly identical. (The glaring exception is the location of "preferences" in Firefox - what's up with that, anyway?) Mark _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
