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Hi All, My brother is considering buying an IBook (it'll probably be about a year old), I know you can get windows for macs, but does "mac" windows run PC versions of things like word etc. or do you need mac word for mac windows? Also can you move PC files such as MS Money to mac versions of the program and can you use PC floppy disks in macs? |
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Talk him out of it Ceri! You know it makes sense! |
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well, theres a lot of conversion-programs out theyre. And theres also the posibility of putting a PC and a Mac together on a network. I think that Mac-Windows runs about half speed as the mac. Meaning that if you have a 900Mhz Mac it acts like a 450Mhz PC if using a Windows-convert |
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i spell like shit today....hmm...must be the heat...sorry |
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I know, he can get one cheap (£166) he's being swayed by the DVD drive (I think he just wants a portable DVD player that can run MS word & money :) Does anyone here have an ibook? Are they any good? |
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Come on, enough of you respond when there's a macs are better than PCs debate! Let's change the tone, my brother wants to buy an ibook why should he, they're rubbish aren't they? |
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damn right...;) |
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IBooks are v. cool... Yep, Macs can read & write PC disks....dunno about Money files being compatible, altho I wouldn't be surpised if they were.... As for running Word/Office...probably best to get Mac version as most of those Windows Emulators for the Mac are very slow.... (p.s. I can sort you out a full CD of Mac Office BTW....will try and put it in with the CD I owe you of Music Software etc...) |
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Cheers Jand, if it spills over onto a second CD I'll send you a second blank CD. That'd be cool as my brother was worried about having to buy mac software for it. You still haven't said which PC games you want... :) |
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yeah, I know..sorry, mate...still a bit behind with emails...I've got about 15 people I owe a reply to... Think I might book a few days hols next week to catch up...Too many late nights at work recently so I'm knackered when I get home & keep putting stuff off... so sorry, to anyone who's waiting to hear back from me...I'll get to back to you as soon as pos... |
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eeeeyyyy.. aint we popular mr. jand.... ;) |
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Personally I find Macs irritating. Little bugs that shouldn't happen in the hardware. Turn on the one at work and either the Keyboard doesn't work but the Mouse does or vice versa. As they are connected together it shouldn;t happen like that. If the mouse is second in the chain why would that worl but not the keyboard. Stupid thing. Plus I find them incredibly slow to use. Mind you just my opinion and I've never used the iBook. |
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i have an ibook - run all my mac audio stuff on it at the moment, really nice machine too, only one little problem with the HD in 12months, and that was fixed by Apple in 3 days. OS X is ok on them but i personally don't like it despite the unix thing, and virtual PC is sloooow. Its a sweet little machine, nice casing feels rugged, dropped it a few times with no probs. telll him to get the extra ram if he does get one it will really pay off. I was thinking about running out of PC world in cardiff with a titaniam powerbook under my arm the other day. I'd run so fast if i knew i could get away with one of those :) |
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MacOffice is also dead easy to install, just copy the folder to the hard disk from the CD then run one of the apps, word, excel etc. and it installs the necessary extensions. If you (accidentily) ditch any of the extensions next time you run the apps the missing extensions are automatically installed and you don't have to restart. Of course that's MacOS 9 office, dunno about the OS X version. BTW OS X 10.2 looks VERY cool. I'm running a 233MHz iMac so I can't really run OS X properly so I don't have much experience with it. I only know it's extremely stable (my Dad's Titanium hasn't crashed yet and he's had to restart it about 5 times in the last 7 months) It just runs. |
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