Well I can now attribute several of the smaller odd problems I was having with the old PowerBook to the bad HD. None of the same issues have cropped up with this unit.
The transition is going well, and aside for Office, I’ve yet to find an application that I “miss” from my PC. I’ll have to get a copy of Office eventually, but with all of the bundled apps on the Mac, it’s not a pressing issue.
I am somewhat curious as to why they include the entire iLife suite, several high-end outlining and project management apps, but not a copy of AppleWorks (which is bundled on the iBook). I suppose they think that anyone with a PowerBook is in the more “professional” market and is going to buy a copy of Office eventually?
But honestly, TextEdit is nearly all I need for basic stuff. It can be a bit clunky at times, and there are some really sweet features on the new Mac Office that I’m eager to try out.
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What do you think of Open Office? That is what I use on my laptop these days, and it is more than good enough for everything Office related that I need to do. Oh, occasionally I fluster through the menus looking for features, but the more that I have used it, the more that I have grwon to like it. Why, nearly love it.
I was thinking the same with Open Office. I use it as the primary WP/SS on my laptop and desktop at home (also have MS Office 97) and have gotten to the point where I get flustered with MS Office 97 (and 2000 at work) I’m so use to the menus/buttons now, though I still tend to use MS for PP since I haven’t played a lot with it on Open Office.
they don’t include AppleWorks??? thats freakin’ odd! i mean, like you say they include it with an iBooks so you’d think they would bundle it with a Powerbook??? odd for apple to omit something like this…
I prefer Office 2004 greatly to AppleWorks. It’s like comparing Microsoft works to Microsoft Office. Two different target markets.
AppleWorks hasn’t been updated in a major sort of way since 2000? 2001? It’s getting long in the tooth.
//k
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