Time to ditch Powerpoint for Keynote!

[Rafael Santos]

Just venting my spleen. I've opened a Powerpoint file (a presentation I've been reusing/updating for 3-4 years), went to get a snack and got back to this:

Powerpoint decided to use 220+ gigabytes of memory to open a 53-megabyte file. And froze my brand new Mac Studio (M1 Max, 32Gb Ram).

That, plus the annoying behavior and constant crashing of Onedrive is changing my opinion on the value of Microsoft 365 (all the tools plus 1Tb of cloud storage). Let's see what the Apple tools offer.

 

[Sheepish-Lord]

I left the Windows ecosystem before W8 showed it’s ugly head. However, at work we still use Windows but all the software is paid for so everytime I even think about buying a Windows laptop for fun I realize everything is paid. You want email? Paid! You want to write a paper, that will be an annual O365 subscription because we don’t offer one time purchases anymore. Microsoft literally gives you nothing for free so while Apple’s stuff may not have a ton of features at least I don’t have to pay for basic productivity on any of my devices and I can actually convert Apple office suite files to their Windows counterparts if needed. This is why even businesses are moving stuff to free services like Google’s because what’s company secrets when you have to pay huge annual licensing fees to Microsoft just to do a PowerPoint.

 

[Shirasaki]

You know What’s powerful about office suite? Excel. Numbers still have a very long way to get there. And, since Apple Offers their office suite for free meaning they have no financial pressure to continue improving the software at rapid speed.

If you got a Windows PC, you can try to open that pptx file on Windows PC and see if they will chew up 223GB of RAM. I highly doubt it.

Bottom line is, for personal use, keynote might be a good substitute. For business use? No. Even Mac computer installs microsoft office, including demo MacBooks in Apple Store.

 

[Basic75]

For personal use, keynote might be a good substitute. For business use? No.

Why not? I find Keynote is the one Apple office app that is better in practice than its Microsoft counterpart. More features? No. Nicer results with less effort? Absolutely.