I need a recommendation for a good word processor

i have two macs at home which are fully converted to pages and keynote. my family has now fully converted from using clunky office 2004 to iwork. i bought a used ibook g3 for $275 and i thought i could use it for writing essays at school. and its pretty light at 4.9lbs after all (well it's the lightest mac around). i installed iwork thinking it could run smoothly. i found out that when i begin typing, the words take forever to print on the screen. it gets even slower while moving paragraphs around. so now i thought i would have to run word 2k4. that's no problem since i have been used to using word for years. well, as a matter of fact, i can't stand word one bit. pages is just so much better and cleaner, i simply can't take the user interface MS has built. since i am on a 12in screen, the Word window is awkward and clunky. so, i am now thinking of getting appleworks, but that software is older than panther, so i dont know how powerful it really is.
if anyone can recommend me a good app for just writing essays, please tell me. is there a way to make pages run faster, or make word look better? thanks, gabe.
what i am doing now is using word to type and copying everything to pages so it can be formatted better. its pretty slow, annoying but it gets the job done.

Welcome to Apple Discussions
For your G3 iBook, I recommend AppleWorks 6. You should have received the original disks with that iBook & those disks include AppleWorks. If you didn't get them & can't get them from the seller, you could call Apple & ask for a replacement set of original disks. There will be a small charge, but I'd consider it worthwhile just to have a set of the originals. If you want to buy AppleWorks 6, try eBay and do a search for "AppleWorks" or "Apple Works" (some people put a "space" in the name).

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