I use open office and never have any problems ( free as well )
They're all, 'Intel Inside', so you're just paying over the top for packaging. As an engineer, practicality dictates that I use a PC.
I'd say the OS is a little more than 'packaging'. The Unix based OS is brilliant...
I'm tempted to buy a 24" iMac but the quality issues I've seen on the MacBook scares me off spending €1600 on a machine that may die/have problems within a few short years ...
I'm tempted to buy a 24" iMac
All I know is my girlfriend created several documents & presentations on her mac in college using openoffice and when it came to displaying them on the college pcs in traditional microsoft format; they came out awful with formating etc. markedly different.
It all depends on the file extension you save it as
Oh I know that, i'm savvy enough with it all - but at the time my gf was relatively unfamiliar with mucking about with things like that - she wanted to simply do things the windows way and was annoyed at having to change her thinking. My point is its easy for people who know alot about pc/laptops - but for many general users its a pain in the...
Don't buy it just yet - very likely the iMac range will be substantially updated in January 2009.
They're all, 'Intel Inside', so you're just paying over the top for packaging. As an engineer, practicality dictates that I use a PC.
Try running MATLAB release 12 or SynaptiCAD on a MAC.
So back to my previous point, '...practicality dictates that I use a PC'.
Well i don't need to.
you can buy Microsoft office for Macs too. So you don't need to use openoffice, unless of course you want to.
I'm not sure many people 'love' Gates or MS.And the Bill Gates love in isn't ???
I'm dubious about that statement. Your example may suggest that Apple products are more competitively priced in USA but here I think you'll find that with Macs you'll get lower specs and lower performance for your euro. My own preference is for ubuntu on a standard PC. I find iMacs and MacPros to be slow and I hate the keyboards/mice.Actually it's been shown time and time again that this is not the case. Here's one example
Try running MATLAB release 12 or SynaptiCAD on a MAC.
Your example may suggest that Apple products are more competitively priced in USA but here I think you'll find that with Macs you'll get lower specs and lower performance for your euro.
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