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Originally Posted by mdp
Reasonably fast Office Automation on Android is totally achievable. Again: it was on machines of over 20 years ago. The Max2 has good specifications, a comparable in performance to the low end of Intel's current offer and (very) roughly equivalent to, for example, earlier Macbook Air (high end Core 2 Duo of not ten years ago). I had "usable" to good results on much less.
Clutter: again my point: but for the menu bar, on the screen I have only text, and properly formatted (while a matrix-like, terminal-like output would be that clot that deprives from useful information). Anyway, immersion mode is granted on desktop OA (at least, on the desktop StarOffice successors - I do not use the rest), just like it should and is on mobile, that's not a problem.
And look, you only live once to impose yourself the purposeless exposure to inelegant layouts. You are what you eat.
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If your porpuse it's using just one device, the Max2, for word processing-editing I think it's a good option with some compromises. Screen refresh on the Max 2 will become tedious in a long document with hundreds of edits, it just cannot be compare with a LCD screen. It doesn't matter that much the specifications on the Max2, the disadvantage it's inherent to the screen technology. Not having colour can also be problematic for some writing eg programming, color coded scripts.
For scientific papers I wonder if Android is a good choice when you have to deal with Latex for Mathematical formulas.
For fiction writing what I would do is prepare in a Windows machine (Mac too) a Word document with the formatting of every style I would need; paragraph spacing, fonts, quote style, headings, etc... I will save that document in Google Drive and start writing on it with Word for Android on the Max2; that way the formatting it's done for you and you only have to care about the content.