Rock solid stable free osx word processor

MS Word? not Intel-native but best for compatibility...
 
Optional87 said:
MS Word? not Intel-native but best for compatibility...
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Also not free. MS charges an arm and a leg for their office suite, and at least an arm for MS Word on its own. OpenOffice is the best bet, I use it on my windows machine, does everything I need and more.
 
I've got a copy of WordStar in my archives that you can have for free.
 
Bean or abiword would be my choice. I've used abiword fr a while, bu I really like bean since I downloaded it a few weeks ago.
 
Textedit? :)
NeoOffice (OpenOffice version of Mac OS X but cleaner -- which means almost nothing haha).
Writeroom?
 
Bean. OpenOffice requires X to run (ie. it looks and performs poorly). NeoOffice just looks like OpenOffice shoehorned into the Mac GUI (ie. it doesn't really look or act like a "Mac" program). MS Word isn't Intel-native and is expensive (however, if money is no object and you have enough RAM, MS Word is probably the best overall word processor for the Mac).

Bean has none of these issues, but isn't as robust a product as the rest. For simply typing documents, Bean is excellent, but for laying out complex documents, you might want to consider one of the above, or AbiWord, which is excellent as well.
 
CEpeep said:
Bean. OpenOffice requires X to run (ie. it looks and performs poorly). NeoOffice just looks like OpenOffice shoehorned into the Mac GUI (ie. it doesn't really look or act like a "Mac" program). MS Word isn't Intel-native and is expensive (however, if money is no object and you have enough RAM, MS Word is probably the best overall word processor for the Mac).

Bean has none of these issues, but isn't as robust a product as the rest. For simply typing documents, Bean is excellent, but for laying out complex documents, you might want to consider one of the above, or AbiWord, which is excellent as well.
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Office for Students and Teachers comes with 3 licenses and is $150. Find some friends who need it and split it 50$ a piece. That's Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Entourage.
 
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