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May 22, 2009
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I am buying a Macbook Pro with a 2.93 intel chip with 4 Ram.( first time user )

I would like to use the Apple system software only.

No Microsoft office.

Can someone let me know if they are very satisfied with their Apple only system ?

:cool:

Thanks people.
 
Very happy with my PowerMac G5. No YDL on it and I do not have the option to install windows. Very nice :p Final Cut is a great program and I did not want to go the hackintosh route.

Although, MacBook Pro.... Forum change?
 
Hmm, I like iWork better than MSOffice! Much better! But then again I don't have to conform to any quote-unquote standards either. If I did need to tho I would probably be dealing with higher levels than MSOffice. Like QuarkXPress or FrameMaker and Illustrator or Freehand, etc. There's OpenOffice which isn't too bad - same actually as MSOffice and then of course there's lots of other open source like Scribus and etc. etc. many of which are VERY MUCH better than OpenOffice/MSOffice.

For what I do Pages, Numbers, Nisus, BBEdit, PhotoShop, and Illustrator are very very nice. More fun to use than anything from MS and they offer as much or more sophistication than I need.


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To aaronw 1986

Hi aaronw 1986, hope this clears up the doubt to my question,

I do NOT want to use Microsoft office software on the MBP, i.e. is IWork a success story to work with on the MBP ??

Tks.
 
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Tesselator said:
Hmm, I like iWork better than MSOffice! Much better! But then again I don't have to conform to any quote-unquote standards either. If I did need to tho I would probably be dealing with higher levels than MSOffice. Like QuarkXPress or FrameMaker and Illustrator or Freehand, etc. There's OpenOffice which isn't too bad - same actually as MSOffice and then of course there's lots of other open source like Scribus and etc. etc. many of which are VERY MUCH better than OpenOffice/MSOffice.

For what I do Pages, Numbers, Nisus, BBEdit, PhotoShop, and Illustrator are very very nice. More fun to use than anything from MS and they offer as much or more sophistication than I need.


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Thanks ,

going further, what application do you suggest for anti-virus protection ?.
 
iWork is very, very good.

If you regularly share and collaborate on documents with windows users, however, there can be compatibility issues.

NeoOffice or OpenOffice does MS compatibility better than iWork in my experience, though they're not perfect either.
 
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Tesselator said:
Hmm, I like iWork better than MSOffice! Much better! But then again I don't have to conform to any quote-unquote standards either. If I did need to tho I would probably be dealing with higher levels than MSOffice. Like QuarkXPress or FrameMaker and Illustrator or Freehand, etc. There's OpenOffice which isn't too bad - same actually as MSOffice and then of course there's lots of other open source like Scribus and etc. etc. many of which are VERY MUCH better than OpenOffice/MSOffice.

For what I do Pages, Numbers, Nisus, BBEdit, PhotoShop, and Illustrator are very very nice. More fun to use than anything from MS and they offer as much or more sophistication than I need.




Tesselator,

will have to check with you again at later time,
hopefully you will be available,

Tks.
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OP, I do not think that anti-virus protection is necessary unless you decide that pr0n is a recreational hobby :p.
 
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dukebound85 said:
sorry but why do you want only apple software? any reason? im really kinda curious as it seems somewhat silly
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Ron, you are right,

my question should have been; for the MBP 17" x 2.93Intel x 4 Ram

can any one let me know what software from Apple and Microsoft Office would work very well on the system ?

Tks.
 
faa said:
Thanks ,

going further, what application do you suggest for anti-virus protection ?.
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None! None needed.

Also, any of the apps I named will run awesomely on your MB! Tho I haven't tried Scribus in OS X yet. I used it a few time in Linux tho. :)
 
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