I know, it's a weird question, so lemme explain first before you all go "One's for Mac, one's for Windows" because I already know that.
Our university recently just completed an interesting licensing offer for all students, faculty and staff: for only the "cost of the distribution media", a person can get Windows 7 + either Office 2011 for Mac (assuming at least Home and Student) or Office 2010 Professional Plus. I already have Office 2008 and, while there are some little quirks, I'm really fine with it except the fact that it manages to make HUGE file sizes (a simple 200 word document may create, for instance, a 160kb file in .docx). I also have a netbook which is using strictly OpenOffice. I don't mind it 99% of the time, but there are times when I'll have to work on a paper and the formatting mishaps are a tad annoying. My problem with getting Office 2010 on the netbook is that I feel that running programs on it might get a bit slow (only 1GB RAM)...and also, I'm not really going to write papers for the next semester. Also, I can still buy Office 2010 for relatively cheap from the Ultimate Steal promotion (79.95 vs. 99.99 for Office Mac through Ultimate Steal)
I think you can tell which direction I'm heading with this...but is there a flaw in my logic? Something else should I consider? Thanks and happy new year everyone
Our university recently just completed an interesting licensing offer for all students, faculty and staff: for only the "cost of the distribution media", a person can get Windows 7 + either Office 2011 for Mac (assuming at least Home and Student) or Office 2010 Professional Plus. I already have Office 2008 and, while there are some little quirks, I'm really fine with it except the fact that it manages to make HUGE file sizes (a simple 200 word document may create, for instance, a 160kb file in .docx). I also have a netbook which is using strictly OpenOffice. I don't mind it 99% of the time, but there are times when I'll have to work on a paper and the formatting mishaps are a tad annoying. My problem with getting Office 2010 on the netbook is that I feel that running programs on it might get a bit slow (only 1GB RAM)...and also, I'm not really going to write papers for the next semester. Also, I can still buy Office 2010 for relatively cheap from the Ultimate Steal promotion (79.95 vs. 99.99 for Office Mac through Ultimate Steal)
I think you can tell which direction I'm heading with this...but is there a flaw in my logic? Something else should I consider? Thanks and happy new year everyone