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I guess we can also make a laptop. You take a bluetooth keyboard with a bluetooth mouse and for the screen you take a glasse tv like this one http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/24...creen_for.html

For those who want to appreciate how horribly slow is starting openoffice.org on the n900 device, here's a video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMSrtdX5fu8
Don't start viewing unless you have something more than 5 minutes spare.
I can't understand yet why is it so slower than on the N810

but that's just an emulation...if it actually was on the N900 i believe it would be much faster

I think its actually a VNC viewer window isn't it? I don't speak italian so can't tell!

Yes it's vnc. And that's not emulation, that's the real thing on the N900 inside easy debian. And it's slow as hell. And, I was trying to speak in English in that video (I guess it's unintelligible or seems like Greek).

Whatever stable quick word-like and excel-like editor and other office-product-like viewers, that support txt rtf doc docx xls, free or commercial is what N900 needs and that fast as h*ll. If its called MS, Star, Open, Kde or whatever dosent matter to me. Just make it available ...now

I've tried the actions of the video by not starting debian first, but starting OO3 directly via xTerminal ("debbie ooffice").

This boosts the speed approximately by a factor 2.

I've started OO3, than selected "new Textdocument" and typed the same sentence as in the video.
The last letter has shown up after 3min 36sec.
Still not fast, but it can be used to quickedit little files from friends while not sitting at a computer.

I'm happy with this solution for the moment, as I don't plan to create big amount of text here, but fill sometimes an excel-sheet with a few characters.

I hope native OO3 will be available soon, because the biggest slowdown seems to be because of loading debian in the background (taking a lot of RAM and CPU-power). I'm new to linux and the used technique to virtualize OO3 here, but why is it so noticeable faster when starting via xTerminal?
I mean it's not that I could type fluid, but it's really more performant this way, than starting it from debian (like in the video).

Thalon

P.S: Hello community :-)

Errr... Google docs? Not sure whether it's available offline yet, but online it works really well...

Native? There's no emulation. I can only guess that VNC is the cause of the slowdown? It did cause a slowdown in N810 but nowhere near 2x.

javispedro:

No, Thalon is talking about the fact that we use a Xephyr - LXDE kludge to get Open Office working fully. This does add a noticeable overhead.

A subset of Open Office's functionality is usable in Maemo 5 without opening a secondary desktop environment, but there are just too many problems to use it that way for most people.