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Originally Posted by Edward M. Grant
I used to run Word in an emulator on a 40MHz SPARC. If a multi-core, 1GHz-ish ARM can't handle it, either Word is using a ton of CPU these days or it's not a very good emulator.
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Currently the emulator only runs at the equivalent of a 90MHZ Pentium 3. So at this point there are few practical uses for it, except for those who want to run really simple programs or DOS games, etc. That will get better over time as the developers improve this. And it depends what version of Word we are talking about, Word 2010 demands a 1 GHZ processor, some really old versions would probably run. And a 1 GHZ ARM is not the same as a 1 GHZ Intel processor. Anyway, that is moot -- the native ARM version of Office 2013 runs great.