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Hello...
Just pondered over this interesting article on the web, thought I might share some interesting reading for you chaps, I know I am not supposed to just post a link, as some of the comments are quite lengthy! It is basically asking if a Mac can satisfy a working environment without the need for MS etc in a wide variety of roles... I was talking to a friend of mine today who uses XP but resorts to using OpenOffice which is a free alternative to MS Office (never used OpenOffice myself) - I first thought he was bonkers but then as he was explaining that it does what he needs it to, I thought 'hmm' worth a look - I suppose we just think it is the natural path because I use Word at work, I NEED to use Word at home on my Macs... The question is DO I really need to? I mean I have got Pages on this Mac, but I have never tried it - I just went straight on to Word... Anyway... have a look! http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/4109 Here are a few clips Quote:
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I believe it depends on what you need your computer for.
For instance if all a person really does is basic office tasks such as creating spreadsheets and documents a Mac works perfect. The same goes for music and video development as well as web and obviously OS X software development. Database work can also be accomplish on Macs, with the exception of a few databases such as Microsoft SQL Server or Microsoft Access. On the other hand if you want to create Windows software you obviously should be using Windows. But again you can use a virtual machine on a Mac and run Windows inside of it. Granted this won't work great for game development but most other development this works fine. For my needs OS X works perfectly but I can easily see it not working for everybody. It all depends on what you do for a job. |
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It all depends on what type of spreadsheets you consider basic. Most of my spreadsheets are linked to many other spreadsheets and have VBA programming to automate work. VBA is being deleted from future editions of MS Office for Mac so using a Mac is a non-starter for me.
Just wanted to point out that creating spreadsheets runs the gamut from "add up this list of numbers" to "create the organizational 2007 budget from these 25 divisional budget spreadsheets complete with 3 year trend graphs and executive overview". |
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