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3V17C
Aug 11, 2007, 10:27 AM
well...after being a PC user for many years I've just picked myself up a used iBook! :eek:

Basically, I'm kinda trying to do some serious writing (words not music) and am far too easily distracted when I get on my PC (games, myspace, music, art, ebay...forums!) so i wanted a 'standalone' machine purely for writing and not much else (maybe a bit of music while i work). I've always liked the look of Mac stuff so thought why not. Ok so the ibook isn't the highest spec in the world but i figure for pure word processing (and maybe inseerting the odd image) it'll do what i require.

now all i've got to do is get my head around installing open office or similar!!

i'm sure i'll be posting on here again before long with questions/problems etc, but for now i just thought i'd say hello!


peace

c



psychofreak
Aug 11, 2007, 10:29 AM
Congratulations and welcome!

Remember to check out the Macrumors beginners guides (http://guides.macrumors.com/Mac_Beginner's_Guide) if you have any troubles.

Pages (http://www.apple.com/iwork/trial/) is awesome, and NeoOffice (http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/maindownload.php) is good, but a bit slow :)

NeoOffice is based off OpenOffice, but is usually an update behind unfortunately. There will be a non-java (unlike NeoOffice) OpenOffice in the future, and that will be a lot faster (the alpha out now is very buggy).