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Join Date: Jul 2005
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Hi. I'm trying to determine what office suite I should go with for my iMac DV 450, I mostly will be doing word processing and presentations for school. Was thinking about iWork or MS Office 2004, I can't really decide though.
What do you all use for that sort of thing, input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Use your student discount and get Office. (Wow. I said that even considering my personal feelings toward MS. But, hey: It's a Mac product at least.)
The open source stuff NeoOffice, OpenOffice just won't run very smoothly on your setup.
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Did Schroedinger's cat think outside the box?
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
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And post questions about applications in the Applications forum... Office suites are software, after all. What could possibly be iMac-specific about an office suite?
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Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
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Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Irvine, CA
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It depends what operating system you are running. The iMac DV 450 came out in 2000 so it is OS 9 preinstalled on it so if you are still running that, I would suggest Office 2001 (Word, Powerpoint). If you are running OS X, either Office 2001 or Office 2004 will be ok. I don't really suggest Keynote/iWork on that mac because it might run a little slow and Appleworks is outdated.
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Join Date: Jul 2005
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Wait you don't want to recommend Pages because it'd be slow... but you're recommend Word? What were you going to suggest next that he jab a fork in his eye?
Pages and Keynote as far as I've seen are much snappier than Word and PowerPoint respectively. That said are these presentations from your iMac, or another Mac? The computer you present on will need keynote installed if you're going to use Keynote files.
IF you're already used to Word then you might want it. Pages does not have as many dumb features, but I have yet to have it really give me any problems in what I needed to use it for, IE writing papers for school and doing my own poetry and stuff like that. IT's actually really good as a page layout program.
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Administrator Join Date: Apr 2001
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Originally Posted by Salty
...because it'd be slow...
It's all RAM-dependent in OS X. With more RAM, nothing is particularly slow. I can't say anything about OS 9, but in Panther I've found that more RAM makes everything faster. And with 640MB on an 800MHz iBook, Word is not at all slow.
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Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Irvine, CA
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Originally Posted by Salty
Wait you don't want to recommend Pages because it'd be slow... but you're recommend Word? What were you going to suggest next that he jab a fork in his eye?
Pages and Keynote as far as I've seen are much snappier than Word and PowerPoint respectively. That said are these presentations from your iMac, or another Mac? The computer you present on will need keynote installed if you're going to use Keynote files.
IF you're already used to Word then you might want it. Pages does not have as many dumb features, but I have yet to have it really give me any problems in what I needed to use it for, IE writing papers for school and doing my own poetry and stuff like that. IT's actually really good as a page layout program.
Uhhh...Pages has a higher system requirements than Word believe it or not...
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/howtobu...req#office2004
http://www.apple.com/iwork/ (BOTTOM OF PAGE)
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