[Ham-Mac] MAC software question

[Michael Carter]

AppleWorks *does* come with the Mac mini. It does not work with PP  
presentations, however.

A good option would be iLife '05 ($79), which contains Keynote and  
Pages. Keynote imports PowerPoint and does a pretty darn good job at  
making great-looking presentations. Pages is a page layout app for  
creating one-click flyers, resumes, brochures, etc. Sort of like a  
mini-PageMaker or Quark Express. Very easy to use.

For every-day work processing, every Mac comes with TextEdit, which  
while isn't close to the feature-laden Word as far as functionality,  
is more than enough for most basic word processing needs. It even  
opens RTF files from Word. :)

So I think you'll find that you will have everything you need. :)   
Plus, I believe newer Mac minis ship with Tiger as it's OS, which  
sweetens the deal that much more.

I've heard mixed reviews of OpenOffice. For one, there isn't a native  
build for OS X. It runs under the X11 windowing system. Not  
necessarily a big drawback, but by not being native, you miss out on  
the services offered to native apps by the OS and other apps.  
NeoOffice, which is a Carbon-based Mac app using OpenOffice as it's  
core, may be a good alternative. It's still in development and can be  
found on the OpenOffice site.

73,
Mike - K6MEC

On May 11, 2005, at 3:23 PM, harris ruben wrote:

> AppleWorks reads .doc files and can save as .doc files. I don't  
> think it can process PowerPoint presentations, though
>
> N2ERN
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