02-09-2009, 02:43 PM
I don't know how the Mac version of Excel compares to the Windows version, but one of the selling points of Excel for Windows vs. OpenOffice Calc is that Excel can handle many more records in a dataset. I think that Calc tops out at around 27,000 records, while Excel was around 100,000. I'm working from memory, so I could easily be off by an quite a bit, but I think that the ratio of the difference is close. I'm sure that Calc will quickly catch up though. OO 3 was quite a leap for that application in my opinion.