Does any one successfully print with this tab? Wifi or USB? If so what printer? I am using an app called Print Hand and it recognises my older HP Deskjet D4360. It will print, but some things it doesn't like, and I have to set up the printer each time. I'm just wondering if anybody has luck with this.
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droidxxxxx said:
Does any one successfully print with this tab? Wifi or USB? If so what printer? I am using an app called Print Hand and it recognises my older HP Deskjet D4360. It will print, but some things it doesn't like, and I have to set up the printer each time. I'm just wondering if anybody has luck with this.
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I have had excellent performance with the Cloud Print App. Uses Google Cloudprint and then forwards the print job to your PC - is seamless and has worked great for me - web pages, Word doc's from Documents to Go, etc.
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I have had excellent performance with the Cloud Print App. Uses Google Cloudprint and then forwards the print job to your PC - is seamless and has worked great for me - web pages, Word doc's from Documents to Go, etc.
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Yes..but I don't want to involve my computer. .as I need the copies in the field. I plan to direct print via usb, wifi, or bluetooth. I am purchasing a hp deskjet 460c that is on the supported acer print list..its a portable, nice and small made for the road. It has usb for sure..i'll have to buy the wifi or bluetooth cards. Hopefully it will do ok. I've tried printhand to print from another othwise unsupported printer, with so so results. I'm having trouble with the rendering software making my excel sheets split the header..making it have 3 pages and on the forth page being what I wanted to print, it has part of the 5th page at the bottom because the header is taking up the first three pages which shouldn't be happening. .lol. maybe acer print will render it correctly.
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Yes..but I don't want to involve my computer. .as I need the copies in the field. I plan to direct print via usb, wifi, or bluetooth. I am purchasing a hp deskjet 460c that is on the supported acer print list..its a portable, nice and small made for the road. It has usb for sure..i'll have to buy the wifi or bluetooth cards. Hopefully it will do ok. I've tried printhand to print from another othwise unsupported printer, with so so results. I'm having trouble with the rendering software making my excel sheets split the header..making it have 3 pages and on the forth page being what I wanted to print, it has part of the 5th page at the bottom because the header is taking up the first three pages which shouldn't be happening. .lol. maybe acer print will render it correctly.
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Sorry, I didn't get that from the original. I don't have Acer Print since I am running a custom ROM but I would think any WiFi enabled printer will work assuming you have an App that handles the print render - sometimes it is 'share' and then select the printer. Sorry not more help.
Looks like there is also an HP print App on Play that support both WiFi direct printing (for equipped/capable printers) as well as cloud printing - if your printer supports the WiFi direct printing that would maybe be your answer.
Good luck.
I bought a Brother J430W recently, and installed their iBrother app on both my phone and this one. I can print scan, via WiFi. tried once to print a photo, looks fine. tried to scan a lot, works great, can save as PDF or JPG. it really made the PC obsolete.
Has anyone managed to get printing working with older HP laserjets with built in print server (Jet Direct)
Well..the winning combination is an HP deskjet 460C with the wifi card. I have it connected to my phone hotspot by printing out the wifi info page and finding out the mac address and name of the device. Then I simply entered that info in the add devices section in the wifi tether settings. Right when I did that the green light came on on the wifi card and it was a go. The best app I have found for the printing part is Wifi Print Easy Reader. I still have Printhand installed because it works too..and I paid like 9 bucks for it lol, but it just doesn't like Excel files. WithEeasy Reader it saves it as a PDF and then prints it..which I guess I could do manually but this actually renders it better...working great I can print anything wirelessly now and keep my usb mouse keyboard dongle plugged in..no more wires at all..and streaming Slacker Radio across my bluetooth FM transmitter at the same time..lol. I'm going to purchase the battery for the printer and eliminate one other cord. It's really a sweet little printer.. very portable.
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Well..the winning combination is an HP deskjet 460C with the wifi card.
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How much does the ink cost you? If the ink is at $5 to $10 each, you really should not spend all the money and effort on that.
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I bought a Brother J430W recently, and installed their iBrother app on both my phone and this one. I can print scan, via WiFi. tried once to print a photo, looks fine. tried to scan a lot, works great, can save as PDF or JPG. it really made the PC obsolete.
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Same here .. I love my brother printer . Works perfectly from any and all of my devices. No need at all for a computer
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How much does the ink cost you? If the ink is at $5 to $10 each, you really should not spend all the money and effort on that.
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I don't think its too expensive..t takes the HP 94 and 95 cartridges I think..its worth it for the portability.. If I have a lot to print I go to the office lol
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Hey what is a good app to use so I can print pictures and webpages from my phone to a printer?
Printershare works well. You basically long click the url, select share-> printer share and you can send it to a wifi printer.
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One of the things that all android applications (and the system itself) lacks, is the ability to print. As mentioned, there are some weird HACKS that you can do to make this functionality a reality (hackishly), but what would be REALLY cool would be native network printer support. There is NO reason why this hardware can't handle CUPS.
Note that you CAN install CUPS on the phone and it WILL work, which would give you the ability to print from the terminal... and this is relatively easy... but due to application limitations, you wouldn't be able to print from any android applications that I am aware of.... the actual functionality on the application side would NOT even be difficult.
Thought I'd revive this thread rather than create a new one...
Has anyone tried one of the new HP printers with "eprint"?
or Google Cloud Printing?
or some other way to print from your phone?
What I need is a way to print mainly emails, and some documents.
This question has (to my best knowledge) never been addressed in its own thread. I want to use the Xoom (or any other laptop-substitute for that matter) to edit Word and Excel documents, look at presentations on a screen instead of print outs, make last minute changes etc. Maybe take notes during meetings/presentations... you get the idea. It might also be used as multimedia device.
Now, with the currently available accessories (I really like the idea of a case with integrated bluetooth keyboard) is this a reasonable expectation of the Xoom?
Thanks for all your opinions!
I'm not using a bluetooth keyboard but using docs to go with pretty good success. I get an error loading to gdocs but it still does the upload. Some advanced excel functions and word formatting are not the but its decent. The powerpoint part of docs to go is garbage. I have also been using repligo for annotating pdf files and it is very slick well worth the 4.99.
I am trying to use my xoom in place of all the paper docs i used to print and take to meetings. Also signed up to beta test the swiftkey tablet keyboard to see if that works better than this stock honeycomb one.
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Thanks! I'll keep on looking; if not for the Xoom then at least for my Nook
I bought my TF as a toy/media consumption device but I'm finding more and more reasons to use it for work. Especially after enabling ad-hoc wifi to connect to my HTC HD2.
With 2X RDP (https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tux.client&feature=search_result) and the citrix VPN client (https://market.android.com/details?id=com.citrix.Receiver&feature=search_result)
I have the power of my virtual servers at my finger tips.
Polaris office is passable as is the browser and the office talk app keeps me "present" on office communicator (https://market.android.com/details?id=ocs.android&feature=search_result)
Who else is using their TF for work and what pros/cons/apps/tips have you discovered? Anyone got any war stories yet?
No war stories yet. Considering droid/tablet apps for the fed govt. The platform is gaining ground now that the feds are contracting with Google for cloud services.
That's strange, I didn't have to enable ad hoc WiFi to tether with my Droid Incredible (running CyanogenMod 7.0.3)... but it was terribly slow and the Market was basically unusable. I wonder if that's why?
Using Splashtop (well, MyCloud) inside my LAN for work purposes... No war stories, really.
I have apps for web development (mostly putty and some text editor with ftp access) ready in case I have an emergency situation when I'm out of home. But never had to do it yet. It wouldn't be easy because I don't have the keyboard dock yet.
Working in IT I've found myself using my TF101 for 75% of my work. With tools like LogMeIn, Wyse Pocket Cloud, Overlook Fing, andSMB, SharesFinder, ASProxy and Connect Bot I can basically do everything I need at my clients right on my tablet as long as they have a WiFi AP.
The only thing that is seriously lacking is serious Office document work. I've tried the 4 major Office suites, and yes I paid for all of them, Docs2Go, Office Suite Pro, Quick Office Pro HD and the included Polaris Office. From my experience, Polaris Office is hands down the best of the bunch overall and its good that it was included in our TF101's but even with the best android tablet optimized office suite editing and generating serious documents is cumbersome at best. It takes me almost 4 times the amount of time to copy an invoice, rename it, edit it and send it out even with the keyboard dock.
So I still use my ThinkPad for serious office document work, printing and to connect to devices via serial ports like Cisco and FortiNet network devices.
Now if devs can get something like Ubuntu to dual boot on our tablets then the Office document problem is solved with OpenOffice and if drivers can be made for USB ethernet and serial adapters to work with Honeycomb then I might just sell my laptop.
I had purchased the TF for 1/3 play, 2/3 work, when on the road - thinking I could use it as a secondary monitor for my thinkpad using idisplay. Fact is, idisplay's refresh rate is worse than I thought - it is virtually unusable (mouse moves way too slow), but still I'm using it to view my emails, to-do list, or specs for a project...
Yeah I use it all the time, I didnt even buy it for work reasons, but I found that it makes my job a lot easier
I work as a marketing assistant and its my job to document the production and make production instructions to the products my company produces.
So I bring my TF down from the office to the warehouse and make articles on our internal production wiki and take pictures. I couldnt use a regular laptop since I have to be quick and agile and walk around and between the machines we construct.
Working with my TF works SO much better than running up and down with papers.
I write a lot for work, so I am planning to use it as soon as I can get the docking station (not readily available in our parts yet).
How did you manage to connect it to an adhoc network? Or did you find a way to establish WiFi tethering in the AP mode? I am still at loss for this issue.
I would love to start using mine for work but this current company moved away from Citrix & Webapps (which work on android) to using App-V & SCCM instead... which done.
That plus the fact of Lotus Notes instead of Exchange = Fail. I'm stuck with a laptop for the moment
I also want to see usb to ethernet , then maybe my company will give it a go... but why is typing this reply soooo slow almost 1 second delay
I am kinda using it for work as I have my corp email account setup and my EVO does native tethering.
I have a blue tooth keyboard coming tomorrow for typing longer emails/documents.
I just need to get VPN Connections working for my offices Cisco VPN so I can RDP to servers and desktops via 2X.
I use Dolphin HD as my web browser and it does a great job over the stock browser.
Citrix client - how is your experience
How is your experience with the Citrix client?
I have it installed since I got the transformer with intention to use to open our work applications. It works, but it takes extremelly long to establish the connection (5 minutes) until the application is fully opened. Its not the network problem. I hit the same Citrix server from a laptop and use the same wifi, it works reasonably fast.
The issue is only with the connection time that is so long, once its connected, it works pretty well.
If I hit it from our internal network, it runs like crazy-very fast.
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I have it installed since I got the transformer with intention to use to open our work applications. It works, but it takes extremelly long to establish the connection (5 minutes) until the application is fully opened. Its not the network problem. I hit the same Citrix server from a laptop and use the same wifi, it works reasonably fast.
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The initial connection for an application is something about 15 seconds to our unif. Once it is running, there is no more lag. You might want to look into it with your IT department and/or citrix. 5 minutes seems much to long!
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How did you manage to connect it to an adhoc network? Or did you find a way to establish WiFi tethering in the AP mode? I am still at loss for this issue.
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Hi Kovla,
you need a modified version of the file called wpa_supplicant - then push that file to the right directory on your TF and set the correct permissions.
I followed these instructions and they worked perfectly for me - I used the third method listed. I have a rooted device - I've also done this using root explorer instead of adb. the modified file is attached to the thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1093778
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How is your experience with the Citrix client?
I have it installed since I got the transformer with intention to use to open our work applications. It works, but it takes extremelly long to establish the connection (5 minutes) until the application is fully opened.
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My experience has been exactly the same as yours. Slow to conenct but then works fine. I haven't tried it internally because when I'm on the internal work network i don't need a tunnel.
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... but why is typing this reply soooo slow almost 1 second delay
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I have noticed some typing lag in certain situations. Email and documents have been fine but typing into the browser sometimes gives me a small slow down. This did seem to get a little better with the firmware updates and then a little better again when I flashed Prime 1.4 - but that could be unrelated.
I take mine to work since we have software on our network that doesn't allow you access to certain sites (based on keywords I believe). Simply tether to my Inspire 4g and away I go!
Yes, I use mine at work...
to listen to tunes! Will also be using it to test HTML5/CSS3 websites for Androib tablet devices, and that other iOS (shudder) thing when I get some down time.
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I would love to start using mine for work but this current company moved away from Citrix & Webapps (which work on android) to using App-V & SCCM instead... which done.
That plus the fact of Lotus Notes instead of Exchange = Fail. I'm stuck with a laptop for the moment
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I hear your pain, we use Lotus Domino at work too, however we have IMAP enabled on our server, so that with Kaiten Mail makes it usable. Still waiting for Android Lotus Notes Traveller which I believe is very good. Ask your IT manager.
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1.Media
2.Wireless FileSharing
3.Remote Control my laptop from work
Love my xoom, and will not upgrade to any other tablet
1- Netflix at the office
2- Browsing the internet from anywhere in my appartment (gotta love allrecipes.com in the kitchen without taking a lot of counter space)
3- To remote desktop my home computer.
1. Web browsing
2. PDF
3. Remote access for my job (RDP,SSH)
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1- Netflix at the office
2- Browsing the internet from anywhere in my appartment (gotta love allrecipes.com in the kitchen without taking a lot of counter space)
3- To remote desktop my home computer.
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What remote desktop app you use cause I use team viewer and its giving me problems
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What remote desktop app you use cause I use team viewer and its giving me problems
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2X and it's free
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2X and it's free
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Thanks bro
1. GPS for my vehicle (tethered to my phone via. WiFi).
2. Media
3. Reading, web browsing on the go.
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1. GPS for my vehicle (tethered to my phone via. WiFi).
2. Media
3. Reading, web browsing on the go.
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i also do #1, is there a dock for it too mount the xoom or you set it down on the arm rest?
Anyone use this for studies? good or bad? just orderd one xoom and I was wondering.
1 media streaming from my home using emitapp and ANDR to watch satellite
2 video calling the misses and kids *i work away alot* using skype/gtalk
3 remote into my server using splashtop/pocketcloud
1. Fills the gap between my work PC and personal laptop - great for business trips
2. Use it as a eBook reader
3. GPS Navigation (tethered to my Samsung Vibrant)
still trying to figure out how to get Citrix to work on the Xoom for work!!
1. Gaming
2. Movies
3. Remote Desktop
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i also do #1, is there a dock for it too mount the xoom or you set it down on the arm rest?
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In the Accessories Section (in the back pages) there was a thread on an amazing holder for a Xoom in a truck console. There are also windshield holders.
1. Reading - Currents, Books, XDA/RootzWiki
2. Media - Netflix, Music
3. Work - Note taking, access to work laptop while in meetings. It's great when someone asks for a file and I can pull it off my laptop. They are always amazed.
Gaming comes in a close 4th.
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1- web browsing
2- pdf reading (for University) and comics (for fun!)
3- games
1. Web surfing
2. Logging into work computers with logmein
3. Entertainment (music, movies, reading - forums, books, work pdfs)
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Anyone use this for studies? good or bad? just orderd one xoom and I was wondering.
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I predominantly use my Xoom to read journal articles (PDF) and other required readings. I think the best app for PDFs is clearly RepliGo. You can highlight text PDFs pretty easily, and use the other drawing tools to mark up page-scans. They need to make the interface a little more efficient, but it is still the best one out there that I've found.
I also read news articles and check my email on it pretty regularly.
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I predominantly use my Xoom to read journal articles (PDF) and other required readings. I think the best app for PDFs is clearly RepliGo. You can highlight text PDFs pretty easily, and use the other drawing tools to mark up page-scans. They need to make the interface a little more efficient, but it is still the best one out there that I've found.
I also read news articles and check my email on it pretty regularly.
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Yep, repligo is the best one out there and I tested them all
1. Development
2. Development
3. Development
Got the joke? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8To-6VIJZRE
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Nah, serious...
1. Development
2. Read documentation (including college)
3. My sister play games and read comics
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1. Awesome for my kids when we are out and about.(Car Doc Appointments etc.)
2. Great to surf on when in the bed at night, taking a bath or dropping a deuce.
3. GTALK..Video chat the wife while she's deployed
This is using the app Onlive Desktop, available in the market but daftly "not compatible"
Alternative download links near the bottom of this android police page:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...-and-more-hands-on/#download-and-availability
OK so download the app from android police.
go to the onlive website, sign up for an account, ignore the USA only nonsense, it works fine in uk.
install the app, sign in, and you get, windows desktop with Office.
you can minimise, resize windows, spell check works, its fast and smooth and the most awesome app i have ever seen - it ROCKS
You need to pay $5 per month for internet explorer but Office is free with 2gb dropbox storage.
Pics attached!!!!!!
wow. That's cool. Works well.
Anyone have it working with the keyboard dock??
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Keyboard dock works perfectly.
The back key works like the ESC button in excel for example.
shortcuts work in word too.
The 2gb storage is not dropbox btw, its onlive's own servers. There is only 1 save place in the app which auto syncs with their cloud storage on the onlive servers, which is not connected to your transformers file structure.
So to open apps on your computer you have to go to:
http://files.onlive.com where you login again and use a web interface to upload, download, delete, rename.
I did this in dolphin browser - you cant do this from within the app, you have to use an alternate browser.
Makes it a bit harder to keep all your files synced etc but i think they are working on improving the storage / saving relationship so it will be like ubuntu and share your data - who knows if or when though!
only thing i have found missing - no macros in excel, you cant open the VBA coding pages or bring up a macro tab or recording ability. not the end of the world but would have been nice!
website interface pic attached:
how did you get the dock to work?
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not sure what you mean? Is your dock not doing anything at all in Onlive?
I just started typing and using the trackpad, nothing special, it was always working.
try restarting or maybe unplugging and replugging your dock into the tablet to see if that does it.
Got it to work had to uninstall the app and reinstall
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I wish there was a way to change the keyboard language then its will be perfect
Well, you can change the language allright (I tried Word in french) but the keyboard layout seems to be impossible to enable... so as much as I like the concept, this app is useless for me, as I just can't type in french...
Must be the reason why it is not available in my country, according to the Market.
Does networking work on it? Is there any way to get another browser on it without having to pay for IE?
It's nice but the novelty wears off pretty quick IMO. The features are too limited. I would rather use splashtop to stream my own win 7.
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It's nice but the novelty wears off pretty quick IMO. The features are too limited. I would rather use splashtop to stream my own win 7.
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Agree Nice to have a familiar page to work on, but unless you have wifi access it is useless. Several other tools offer many of the functions, without the strings attached. Also company not clear about security of your saved docs.
The transformer is compatible if you install by going to market.android.com in your browser and pushing the install to your device. Weird, but it works.
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The transformer is compatible if you install by going to market.android.com in your browser and pushing the install to your device. Weird, but it works.
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It should be compatible from the market on the tablet that's how I got it.
External mouse seems to work OK but the right-click was not working properly (at all). Scroll wheel wasn't working either.
If anyone is paying for the plus features can you install programs on it?
I heard you can but that would be awesome if you could use steam or something or install onlive.. (lol)
It might be a really limited version of windows 7 but if you can install programs that's pretty cool. I have a macbook unfortunately so I think it's really cool being able to play around with windows 7 even if it's not full featured. And to give onlive credit. Quite a few of those "touch screen" tablet like windows 7 devices run around $1,000 or so. I've played with a few at the MS Store. Not everyone might have a use for this but I'l sure some will and it's just really cool to be able to do.
I too would only be interested in this if I can use some of my familiar windows apps, like photoshop and after effects..that would be the only reason if onlive can get these apps installed and working on my TF, otherwise I will stick with splashtop and just remote to my home-based PC.
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I too would only be interested in this if I can use some of my familiar windows apps, like photoshop and after effects..that would be the only reason if onlive can get these apps installed and working on my TF, otherwise I will stick with splashtop and just remote to my home-based PC.
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Then OnLive will have to pay Adobe a ton of licensing fee, which will be passed down to the users, or resort to using advertisements.
Either way, I am not willing to pay a fee or deal with advertisements to use programs that I already have(not gonna say own, lol) on my personal computer.
i have just used word and excel to prep a finance report, works fine. Bit slower and clunkier than doing it on a PC, but if you dont have a PC and therefore cannot use splashtop then this is a decent solution.
i needed to use both word and excel, you just cannot do that in polaris - it only allows 1 type of document open at once so you can flick between the two.
i tried using kingsoft office but you cant even do bullet points in its word, and its excel cant even do formulas lol
so for me to use word and excel, onlive is the only way and it worked fine, even if a bit slower than an actual PC.
thumbs up from me!