Another New Mac Onwer.. :D

I just bought a a MacBook 2.2Ghz on Monday and it is great. I was a kind of impulse buy lol - just went for a look and came out of the store with one. I've been using windows for many years and didnt think that i could switch to mac... How wrong was i. It is just so easy to use and really, really quick compared to my PC Laptop that actualy has better specs that the MacBook.

Now a question...

I am currently trialing MS Office 2004 and iWork 2008. What one would you say was the better of the two?

Cheers
Jamie

 

Well depends on what you are doing. If it is strong spread sheets and things like that then MS word. iWork 08 is still good and also has support for intel cpus. MS 2004 doesnt and i hear its horrible under rosetta. Stick with iWork 08.

 

If Office is compatible with whatever OS someone is using, it will work properly regardless of what cpu is in the computer. Do you even know what you're talking about?

 

Congrats, jamietaylor!

Its worth checking these two guides out, recommended for all new switchers:

http://www.apple.com/support/switch101
http://www.apple.com/support/mac101

Well, depends on your needs. iWork '08 is a good idea if you don't need the heavy power of Microsoft Office (most home users don't) but need more than open source NeoOffice can provide. But if you need absolute compatibility with Microsoft Office for Windows, and you need the more powerful features of Office, then get Office for Mac.

 

also it should be noted that office 2008 is out.

 

It will work, but what he's saying is that it will run slowly due to having to go through Rosetta.

 

Well, Apple transitioned to Intel chips from the previous PowerPC chips, and to make PowerPC Mac software run on Intel Macs, Apple introduced Rosetta, which allowed PowerPC applications to run on Intel Macs. Applications under Rosetta take up more resources, obviously, and that's what the user meant.

 

As mentioned above, don't bother with Microsoft Office 2004. If you want a standard office suite, get Microsoft Office 2008, which was just released 2 days ago. Regardless of how you feel about Microsoft, you can't really go wrong with the currently-accepted industry standard (well, it's got a few issues, but it's still the current standard).

iWork is certainly a good office suite in its own right. If you just need basic word-processing, spreadsheet, and presentation functionality, and don't need to share documents with PC users often (especially presentations), then iWork is a good substitute for Office 2008.

If you rarely use office applications, and only need the minimum functionality of a suite, and compatibility and document-sharing is even rarer, then you might as well get neither and use the free Neo-Office.

 

Blurb, looks like somebody does knows a little something about Rosetta.