MS Office (Intel) anytime soon?

[Temujin]

When will we see MS Office for the x86?

 

[Chundles]

When will we see MS Office for the x86?

Nobody knows. I'll venture a guess and say "with the release of office:mac 2007"

 

[Temujin]

So next year at the earliest. Hmm, know any equivalent to MS that do work on x86?

 

[epochblue]

What about Rosetta?

Office 2004 should run perfectly well through Rosetta. I still run a G4 PB, so I can't speak to this personally, but all everything I've heard seems to imply that Office running under Rosetta runs at near-equal speed to Office running on PPC.

...so, if it's speed you're concerned with, the thought seems to be don't worry too much. I imagine that's not necessarily true if you're using spreadsheets with 33,000 rows or something like that, but for relatively mild paper writing and spreadsheet use, I think the PPC version will more than suffice running under Rosetta.

 

[Chundles]

I've found office:mac 2004 to run perfectly well under Rosetta, and that's on machines with only 512MB RAM. The programs took a bit longer to open but once open they were fine.

 

[Temujin]

Thanks guys. I'll just run out and get the 2004 version then.

 

[Pittsax]

I've found office:mac 2004 to run perfectly well under Rosetta, and that's on machines with only 512MB RAM. The programs took a bit longer to open but once open they were fine.

I'll second that. I've had no problems with Office 2004 on my MBP. In fact, it runs a little faster than on my old G4 iMac.

 

[DakotaGuy]

Office 2004 runs great on my Intel iMac. The only thing I notice is Office applications open a little slower on it then on my iMac G5, but once they are up and running there is no difference.