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dejamoi

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Hello everyone! As some of you may know, next week I will be purchasing a Mac Mini; it will be my first apple computer ever! I have researched greatly upon the hardware I need and am now looking at software. I just had one question as I am a high school student: what does OS X come with that will let me make presentations, documents, etc.? :rolleyes:

I heard that it comes with Appleworks, but I also heard that it come with the iWork suite. Which one? Sorry, but I'm confused as to which suite it comes with.

Thanks so much for your help,

Bob Sullivan :)
 
It comes with appleworks, iLife, and a 30 day trial of iWork. You school, or wherever you're buying it might add in iWork but it doesn't come standard with the purchase of a mini. (see bottom right of linked page.
 
To make presentations etc.,personally I recommend Microsoft Office, and you can get the student edition which is very reasonable.
 
Oh Ok

Wow, that was quick. Appleworks isn't that bad acutally, and yes, maybe I will get Microsoft Word, etc. for my mac if I need too.

But lets says I don't want to use iWork, can I just uninstall it before it expires like any other program?

Thanks alot guys for your help!

Bob
 
dejamoi said:
But lets says I don't want to use iWork, can I just uninstall it before it expires like any other program?
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You have to install it first, so if you already know you don't want to use it do nothing. If you do use the trial version, yeah just dump it out when you're done with it.
 
Keynote 2 (A part of iWork) is a great application. The only thing I'm worried about is that you won't have anyplace to play it (Unless there's a Mac in your school).

Keynote feature PowerPoint exporting, but you lose a lot of the good feature in Keynote.

If there are Macs at your school, go for iWork, if there are mostly PCs at your school, then go for PowerPoint. And I don't think AppleWorks is very good, unless you're doing really simple stuff, but you'd have the same compatibility problem.
 
For school, Office is pretty great. Since many of my Professors will post their lectures online as powerpoint presentations and word documents, it just makes things easier. I know you can do this with OpenOffice as well, but it's nice to have the real thing, even if it is by Microsoft.
 
While AppleWorks may be an ancient program, it does it's job wonderfully and extremely stably - something Microsoft, and even Apple (as in Pages, while a great app, it's still buggy for lots of folks) have failed to replicate with iWork (Keynote 2 is superb though) and MS Office.
 
As a student, I can tell you you're really going to want MS Office. OpenOffice is ugly and a pain to use. MS Office for mac is really a great product. Its worth the money plus you avoid the frustration with either Appleworks or OpenOffice.
 
From the people I know who have both, Keynote (part of iWork) is about the best presentation software you'll fine, easily blows away PowerPoint (3D effects and transitions, whoo), AND it can save to PowerPoint's format. Only problem is that iWork doesn't have a spreadsheet, so it might be better to just get Office.
 
"Ah, I see," said the blind man.

Hey, :rolleyes:

Sorry about the late reply, school; you know. Anyway, yeah, I think I will get Microsoft Office but that Neo one doens't look all that bad either... I'd test it out but I still have this damned PC 'till my Mac Mini arrives. :D

Thanks Again,

Bob
 
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