For some reason I can't seem to find a list of the software that comes pre-installed on the iMacs. For example, do they typically come with a word processing program (Pages, for example) pre-installed? I don't know why I can't find this info on the Apple web-site.
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Software pre-installed on iMac?
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iMacs don't ship with pages or any other word processor. They ship with ilife and your os (currentlt Lion)
http://www.apple.com/uk/ilife/
You will either have to buy word or pages from the app store or shop.
http://www.apple.com/uk/ilife/
You will either have to buy word or pages from the app store or shop.
Not quite correct, all Macs come with Text Edit which is a very basic text editing application. You can purchase Pages for $20 from the Mac App Store and of course you can always use MS Office for Mac (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) for about $100 or so or use one of the free MS Office derivatives like NeoOffice or OpenOffice.
Is this the same as notepad on a windows machine? I've heard good things about open office but never used it on a Mac
TextEdit is similar to Notepad, but I think TextEdit is much better. I use it to write letters for snail mail when I don't want to bother with Pages.
Its successor Libre Office works well, although it is not very pretty. Still free though and might be all you need.
TextEdit works with formatted text, so I would say its actually closer to wordpad.
I currently don't use a PC so I can't say I'm familiar with notepad, however my understanding is TextEdit is somewhat similar however it has more formatting abilities and also includes a spell checker and some nice formatting abilities.