Question about Office 2004

[rockdog]

Today I was in a thrift store and bought Office 2004 for $1 as I do not have MS Office.

My friend told me it was a waste of a dollar because Office 2004 has issues with Snow Leopard and I should just buy Office 2008.

True?

 

[Intell]

I'm not sure if it has issues with SL or not. But for $1, it isn't that much of a waste.

 

[talmy]

It works here on Snow Leopard. You just have to install Rosetta since it is a PowerPC binary.

 

[rockdog]

Well thanks for the reply, I knew people used it with Leopard w/o too much trouble I just didn't know about SL

 

[NT1440]

Rosetta should allow you to use it. I have no experience with Rosetta however.

 

[Intell]

In my experience with Office 2004 on an Intel Mac: It blows giant chucks. It's slow and clunky but still usable.

I have no experience with Rosetta however.

You probably do. You just don't know it.

 

[NT1440]

You probably do. You just don't know it.

Well, my first mac (13"MBP) doesn't have anything that was written for PPC, so I'm not so sure, unless of course there are other reasons for Rosetta.

I did just get a sweet 1.5ghz 15" Powerbook G4 from my aunt. 🙂

 

[Intell]

I did just get a sweet 1.5ghz 15" Powerbook G4 from my aunt. 🙂

You will love that Powerbook by year's end.

 

[NT1440]

You will love that Powerbook by year's end.

I'm going back to college, so I still haven't figured out what I'm going to do with it. There really isn't any reason to have two laptops with me, my school set up is pretty sweet already. 😎

Suggestions?

 

[Intell]

I use my old Ti book as a headless work bench computer. You could always leave it at your home and use it as a server for SSH and such.

 

[NT1440]

I use my old Ti book as a headless work bench computer. You could always leave it at your home and use it as a server for SSH and such.

Any tutorials on doing such a thing? It'd have to be rock solid as I can't drive 6 hours just to restart a computer. 😛

 

[Intell]

My server is an headless old Intel Mini. It's running Leopard and is setup for auto login. It's just setup with Remote Login turned on. Its also running iChat with auto accepting Screen sharing from my AIM account only, so I can fix it and tinker with it as I please and monitor its activity. For force restarting I got one of those nifty web enable power strips. So if it ever gets cranky I just toggle it. Just make sure you don't forward the SSH port out to 22 or you'll get bombarded with failed login attempts. SSH is the only port I have forwarded. If I need something else I just tunnel it. My Uni is notorious for monitoring Internet traffic, so I tunnel everything through a SOCKs proxy. If you have any further questions feel free to PM me.