Congratilations! And hopefully... soon also for OQO model 2+.
Just cannot wait...
:-)
Hi Ox - forgive me for not researching old threads but when you had an OQO to test and you loaded OSX, did you also attempt to use/install Open Office? I was just reading an article in a computer mag that talked about how great it works in both Mac and Windows OS environments. Would this be an option for you?
As trf said, Microsoft Office 2004 and in particular Microsoft PowerPoint 2004 is a must for us at our University. Or else the presentations do not show properly (backgrounds, colors, tables, animations, drawings like the arrows on mental maps or mind maps and conceptual maps, etc get BROKEN!). It is not only that PowerPoint presentations are NOT interchangeable between Microsoft Office vs other Office packages (NeoOffice, OpenOffice, PlusOffice, Printfolio, StarOffice, etc), they are not interchangeable even between Microsoft Office for Mac vs Microsoft Office for Windows and --amazingly-- even between Microsoft Office versions for Mac, as they are not either interchangeable between Microsoft Office versions for Windows.
In other words, if you have made thousands of presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint 2004 for Mac (and we hate this as much as we hate Microsoft, but we are forced to use its awkward Office products for compatibility reasons), you need Microsoft PowerPoint 2004 for Mac to view them correctly. They do not show well on other Mac versions (eg., Office 2008 for Mac), or Windows or other Office packages different from the ones from Microsoft. Blame Microsoft!!!
Note: I mean NOT-plain-simple presentations, but the ones containing elements like backgrounds, colors, tables, animations, drawings, etc.
The same can be said of Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, etc. Again blame on Microsoft!
More here:
Re: Now OQO is the smallest MAC in the World...Instructions Complete on page 9
http://www.oqotalk.com/index.php/topic,2430.510.html
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