That reminds me: I did my thesis in Word XP. On AMD Duron 700 MHz with less than gig memory on Windows XP (or was it 2000 back then?). I think, I ended up using

That reminds me: I did my thesis in Word XP. On AMD Duron 700 MHz with less than gig memory on Windows XP (or was it 2000 back then?). I think, I ended up using almost any feature possible, including editing huge documents (although I splitted huge doc into chapter sub-documents to avoid wasting time while saving), peppering my document with enormous amount of formulas through Mathtype (Word's own Equation is Mathtype Light or something like that), having lots of illustrations, several page layout changes (portrait -> landscape -> portrait) in the same document and an automatic ToC generation. It worked out just fine. There's a reason why Microsoft still sells their Office product in the age when everyone and their dog can whip out a document online for free.