Apple Portable Updates?

[patriotn11]

please be true............

Hey aswitcher,

I have a burning sensation in my wallet and I'm going through my midlife crisis, some go out and buy a sports car!

Well I want to buy a POWERBOOK, It will be a first time ever that I will use a Mac, so I figured I needed the PB loaded, power windows, dorrs, a/c/ stereo, the works.

Kinda like when I bought my 4x4 chevy Z-71, did I need it, no!, I live in the city, I wanted braggin rights


My goal in life is to write childerans books and I feel the MAC/PB will be a champ.

15" or 17" that's the question, and should I get Office Mac since I have office for the PC

Thanks for any info, aswitcher

 

[aswitcher]

Hey aswitcher,

Well I want to buy a POWERBOOK, It will be a first time ever that I will use a Mac, so I figured I needed the PB loaded, power windows, dorrs, a/c/ stereo, the works.

Well I've used macs a bit, and read plenty about them, but not owned one.

A PB with everything aint going to be cheap.

My goal in life is to write childerans books and I feel the MAC/PB will be a champ.

15" or 17" that's the question, and should I get Office Mac since I have office for the PC

Thanks for any info, aswitcher

Ok, MS Office X is getting a serious revamp next month. I think (better check this) if you buy the current version ist $20 or something to upgrade. Or wait and buy it.

As to whether you need it...well its a lot of money for a word processor. If your a switcher though you'll feel much more comfortable using something you know that works with other machines you and others have.

You could buy Apple's rather dated Appleworks for a lot less and I imagine write documents/novels fine, but Office is the real deal. If you use spreadsheets etc the Office becomes more tempting. Check out Appleworks first on Apple's site.

I sorta hope that Apple OEM Office when it comes out with their machines bringing the price down the PC prices... but if a G5 (unlikely methinks) comes out next week then I will probably pony up the cash (or mail order from the USA which is a low cheaper).

Additonal
15 vs 17. Big $ diff. + you can screen span to any other monirot you might have, making the 17 less interesting due to cost and portability (3kg and big).

 

[kbonnel]

As for office, if you only need work/excel/powerpoint, get the student/teacher version for 129 from maczone. You can then download the coupon to get office 2004 for free (other than the 10 dollar shipping cost). I really love my PB15 SuperDrive, and I did struggle with the "expensive word processor and cd player ), but I have so much fun doing it, that it is worth it too me.

Samuel L Bronkowitz