Does anyone use these programs? They came with my Mac but I haven't really had a use for them.
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Apple Updates iWork '08
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Does anyone use these programs? They came with my Mac but I haven't really had a use for them.
All recent MBP's come with a trial of iWork 08, but a full version of iLife 08.
I prefer iWork over Office. Only downside is that Numbers isn't really mature yet (can't do a lot of stats).
You can also order them pre-installed on any Mac I think. But that would mean the Mac he has is second hand.
Keynote and Pages are both awesome and waaaaay better than Word and PowerPoint. Numbers, however, is next to useless. I had to buy Office 2008 for Excel alone pretty much.
Not the Mac way
Well, "traditionally" you could put your Mac application anywhere and run it, and updaters were smart enough to cope. Part of the point of having application bundles (and /Library/Application Support/), after all, is that the application doesn't have to be in some magic location. Not that this is a show stopper, but it's an annoyance (and, as others have pointed out, the error message is wrong).
Well, "traditionally" you could put your Mac application anywhere and run it, and updaters were smart enough to cope. Part of the point of having application bundles (and /Library/Application Support/), after all, is that the application doesn't have to be in some magic location. Not that this is a show stopper, but it's an annoyance (and, as others have pointed out, the error message is wrong).
Try Office 2008, it puts everything in your dock after installation. I nearly threw up.
Ohh I have not used that yet.
Yeah I have iWork '08 and am downloading the updated now. The reason I got it is because my Office kept crashing a bunch. I got it from my brother and it was probably pirated so that should be the reason. But pages has been fine for me.
I always use the templets for reports and it makes it look sooo much better with no extra work put into it.
The only thing I had a problem with is I could not make a line of best fit for a graph I made for physics. Maybe I just couldn't find out how.
I hope it improves application launch times, that's the only thing that turns me off about the current iWork suite.
I can confirm that launch time for Pages is almost instantaneous now!
All 3 of them, if it wasn't for keynote I would consider ditching the iWork suite due to antics like this.
