[Ham-Mac] MAC software question

[Rick Prather]

Nice wrap-up Mike!

I was about to suggest iWork myself for the PP replacement.  Although  
if using Office on the "other" machine is a big consideration it  
might be a lot easier to just cough up the extra for Student edition  
Office ($129 on sale).   Of course if Excel enters the picture then  
that would really seal the deal.  (not to say that Appleworks doesn't  
do a pretty good job with spreadsheets).

Confused yet?  You will just have to get the mini and see what works  
best for you, start with Appleworks, add iWork if PP is important and  
if full Office compatibility is important you can always fall back on  
the Student edition.

Now, let me muddy the waters even more, do you have a monitor and  
keyboard to use?  If not, I would be very tempted to check out the  
deals going on now for the iMac.  For about $1100 you can get one  
with the 17" monitor a G5 and a faster HD.

Seems like the way I would go if I was getting a new Mac at this time.

Hey all, sorry we have drifted so far off topic but heck, hams  
talking about macs has gotta be close!

Rick
K6LE


On May 11, 2005, at 4:21 PM, Michael Carter wrote:

> 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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