Bought my boy a Mac Pro cause Im a soft git. I have to say its great. He keeps telling me he needs to get Mac office or something cause he cant do word or excel!!!!!! Little shit is never happy :wink:
Office only costs peanuts these days so it's not really an issue. But you can also buy Numbers, Pages and Keynote off the App Store for micro-peanuts if you can't rise to Excel, Word and Powerpoint. They all do the same stuff. Think you can even save some of the Apple docs as their Microsoft equivalent (though I haven't tried). It will look better on a CV, though, to say you are conversant with Excel, Word and Powerpoint rather than Numbers, Pages and Keynote. Better still to know both.
Same experience here. Moved jobs, back onto PC for the first time in years. 'orrible. On the virus question: viruses do now exist for Mac (and even Linux now) but the likelyhood of a Mac getting hit is infinitesimal compared to a PC.
I've probably had 20 Macs over the last 23 years (I have 3 at home and a mac server), from the Classic to the LC's, Quadra's, Power PC's, G3's, G4's, iMacs, iBooks, power books etc. I'm on my 3rd iPhone and I have an iPad2, I've had (still got) at least 4 iPods somewhere. So....guess what I'm voting for . I think I'd have trouble working out how to turn a PC on. :biggrin:
The idea had crossed my mind but I actually sit on a panel for an adoption agency so it would be my luck that he would pop up again pmsl
use open office matey, its free, I have been using it for years & never had any probs, fully compatible with Microsoft stuff etc.. oh and I would never buy a PC again!
Run open office, its free and does it a well enough. (Doh Jimmy got there first) Another one for macs here. After renewing pcs every few years I bough an Imac 4 years ago. Still going great. Have now got a macbook pro and a handful of the phones, pads and pods in the household. Its a no brainer.
As described above, openoffice.org Just rewarded son for excellent gcse results with an imac, we had same discussion and he downloaded it and works perfectly Now thinking of buying a family one instead of another laptop and my netbook seems kerput and the wifes laptop gone too
i write viruses for PC , easy, am not getting on very well with the Macs though - they seem bullet proof, i'll keep trying unless someone kills me first !........:frown:
i think you press START to switch it off..so im guessing OFF to switch in on?? Just find the OFF switch, switch it on, then press RUN from the START menu that switches it off.
I am living this one alone but agree with Bags, get a light antivirus. They are creating viruses for MAC and Linux as both user base do not use antivirus due to many reasons. Safe then sorry thing.
Virus is a notion created by hose who make money from protecting against them; its all a Y2K conspiracy
