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Love the song.

iWork08 FTW!

Pages is good for pretty stationary but bad for writing long papers. =|

What is that song?

As you mentioned, there are NeoOffice and OpenOffice.org native – alpha, but the OOo route isn’t the only way to go. iWork is a very good alternative. Pages is an awesome DTP, (better than Adobe InDesign in a lot of ways). Keynote is so much easier to use and slick than Powerpoint. Numbers is in the early stages but easy to use for a non-power user.

If you add the free, open source – Bean – http://www.bean-osx.com/Bean.html – it’s very good, as well. And / or AbiWord – http://www.abiword.com/ – then you are set. (I prefer Bean, personally.) There’s also TextWrangler – http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/ – which is free, but not open source.

The included TextEdit isn’t that bad for simple stuff.

I don’t think NeoOffice is as good as MS Office – but I think that iWork is better.

For PIM, there is, of course Apple Mail and iCal – or there is Thunderbird and Sunbird, both free and open source.

You can also do online stuff – Google Docx (Documents, spreadsheets, presentations, email, calendar, blogging, etc.) docs.google.com, or Zoho (too much stuff to list) zoho.com

And finally – if you go BootCamp, VMWare, or Parallels, you can always run whatever Windows office sutie you are used to – (including OpenOffice.org).

The upshot is, no matter what OS you use – Windows, Mac, Linux, whatever – there is no reason to spend more than $100 on an office suite. In fact, I wouldn’t spend more than $79 (for iWork).

I commented before I watched the whole video. (my connection is bad or something.) Sorry to for typing out what you already said.

Sorry for typing out what you said at the end – I was commenting while listening to it. (my connection is hosed right now, so it’s taking forever.)

shut up u asshole, obviously u haven’t discovered all the features

he made it

mac is not an apreciate project in my country . i’m from romania. in this country the peuple are buying just intel and amd ..yap .. that product is not for romania .. probably 2% from my country have this .. :)

He didn’t make it . It is Flat Beat. I e-mailed him.

Nisus Writer Pro or Nisus Writer Express, or Mellel!

Open Office and NeoOffice are two programs I want to love, but they still aren’t up to scratch for my liking, mostly due to speed. On my MacPro with twin 2.66 duo cores and 4gb ram Neooffice took 8-10 seconds to load…simply it’s sluggish.

My recommendation is iWork, Apple’s office package. I’m not sure how much it is there, but it was $129 AUD (about $110) for the 5 install version (cheaper for one) and it’s a pleasure to use. Highly under-rated.

Apple’s Pages is amazing. I think it’s better than mac office 2008, it has amazing templates too. Pages is part of the iWork ‘08 suite

Ha, whats your nam..HEY CHRIS IM THINKING ABOUT SWIT…

lol :p

Thanks for the tip, I use Openoffice and don’t like the whole thing of having to run Xll to open the app.

I’ve used Open Office before, was great I would still have to prefer Microsoft Office. Great post as always.

– CrAzYHoSt

I use a Macbook Pro in a windows workplace, so have to consider cross-platform issues. Neo Office is clunky, and Pages messes up on formatting when I save for Word. Also, I really rely on pivot tables in Excel, and Numbers doesn’t do that. So, I’m left with Office — at least for now. I’m hopeful that Google will develop a better solution.

i’m moving to a imac, chris do i need to get mac office 2008 cos i uses office 2007 a lot on my vista computer?

No he didn’t, it was from Levis Puppet ad.

what is the name of the ringtone chris has? isn’t it like a song?

Flat Beat, by Mr. Oizo

If you are familiar with the layout of Office 2007 and are comfortable with it (you don’t want to try something else, or you can’t use something else), you should stick with Mac Office 2008. iWork ‘08 opens Office 2007 files as well.

thanks

word 2008 does have performance issues, appleworks is faster than it