That Guy Posted September 10, 2006 Posted September 10, 2006 But MS Office is £300. Unless you get the student version but don't you have to be a student to get it :-|
Charlie Posted September 10, 2006 Posted September 10, 2006 Stuffit Expander. I'm pretty sure it comes free on the Mac. There's also a paid-for version. http://www.stuffit.com
Calza Posted September 10, 2006 Posted September 10, 2006 WinRAR is better than winzip on windows and it is also free on OSX. http://www.rarlab.com
kyletherobot Posted September 10, 2006 Author Posted September 10, 2006 thanks for your help moria and calza, i got a programme called UnRarX, it seems to do everything i wanted it to
Charlie Posted September 10, 2006 Posted September 10, 2006 But MS Office is £300. Unless you get the student version but don't you have to be a student to get it :-| Who said anything about paying? It's £300 on Windows as well. It's a great product, well worth paying for....
Haver Posted September 11, 2006 Posted September 11, 2006 That Guy: the software doesn't come in the box, you have to send away, presumably with some sort of authentication (eg. University acceptance letter).
That Guy Posted September 11, 2006 Posted September 11, 2006 Who said anything about paying? It's £300 on Windows as well. It's a great product, well worth paying for.... Well where can I get it for 'free' then? :p It's not a problem anyway, I've decided to get one and I think I'll get iWork and Photoshop in a couple of months aswell. Going to learn a language aswell so some software for that would be good, but I've seen loads on amazon. That Guy: the software doesn't come in the box, you have to send away, presumably with some sort of authentication (eg. University acceptance letter). I'm in full time work.
Charlie Posted September 11, 2006 Posted September 11, 2006 Don't buy one yet! Wait until tomorrow evening!
Haver Posted September 12, 2006 Posted September 12, 2006 Moria, do not spoil this day for me! smiley face, smiley face, smiley face. Does anyone want to iChat AV? It felt super-weird installing Microsoft software on the Book. Office is great though. Still got Toast and Appleworks to install. And Comic Life is a well-kept secret! Fake Edit: I didn't have to send away for the CDs, they were right there in the Office box, which is super-strange considering I had to send away for the Windows CDs.
Jon Posted September 12, 2006 Posted September 12, 2006 Moria, do not spoil this day for me! smiley face, smiley face, smiley face. Does anyone want to iChat AV? It felt super-weird installing Microsoft software on the Book. Office is great though. Still got Toast and Appleworks to install. And Comic Life is a well-kept secret! Fake Edit: I didn't have to send away for the CDs, they were right there in the Office box, which is super-strange considering I had to send away for the Windows CDs. Welcome to the club, you can add me to MSN if you want. Possible fanboy conversations ahoy.
That Guy Posted September 12, 2006 Posted September 12, 2006 Should I buy one direct from Apple or will it be exactly the same from PC World? I only ask this as my PC World experience has been crap, but I want it as soon as possible (next thursday).
Jon Posted September 12, 2006 Posted September 12, 2006 Should I buy one direct from Apple or will it be exactly the same from PC World? I only ask this as my PC World experience has been crap, but I want it as soon as possible (next thursday). Apple, Apple, Apple, Apple, Apple.
James Posted September 12, 2006 Posted September 12, 2006 From the first post, do not think its been answered. Im prety sure you can use GMail though the mail program. You might get iLife free with your mac book I got it free for my Mac Mini, It has garage band a cool sound making/editing suite and a very powerful one at that.
Haver Posted September 13, 2006 Posted September 13, 2006 Garageband just makes you think Wow, I wish I had something to podcast about. I have my Gmail account set-up in Mail but it's not working smoothly yet. EDIT: I thought Safari had tabbed browsing?
Jon Posted September 13, 2006 Posted September 13, 2006 Garageband just makes you think Wow, I wish I had something to podcast about. I have my Gmail account set-up in Mail but it's not working smoothly yet. EDIT: I thought Safari had tabbed browsing? You need to enable it - Safari/Preferences/Tabs/EnableTabbedBrowsing.
pedrocasilva Posted September 13, 2006 Posted September 13, 2006 EDIT: I thought Safari had tabbed browsing?Just use Camino a mozilla based browser, exclusive to MacOS.
ThePigMarcher Posted September 13, 2006 Posted September 13, 2006 Personally I am not overkeen on Camino. For some strange reason it just doesn't seem to work as well as Firefox (although it does look more native). Generally though I find Safari more than sufficent. I just wanted to add , that I am another who made the switch around 7 months ago (sadly my old laptop died just before the macbooks came out so I got myself an ibook) and there is no way I could ever switch back to windows. I thought it would take a while to get used to , but everything is so well-incorporated and works well that within a week I felt like an old hand.
pedrocasilva Posted September 13, 2006 Posted September 13, 2006 Personally I am not overkeen on Camino. For some strange reason it just doesn't seem to work as well as Firefox (although it does look more native). Generally though I find Safari more than sufficent. Neither do I, because I'm used to using firefox 1.5 to the fullest, and Camino, and, sadly, Opera. just don't work the same way for me. I still recomend camino for apple though. As for Camino, I can say for experience that I find it faster on apple computer's with less RAM, and I believe it's as stable as firefox 1.5, if not more. As for Safari... no can do, without tabs. I just wanted to add , that I am another who made the switch around 7 months ago (sadly my old laptop died just before the macbooks came out so I got myself an ibook) and there is no way I could ever switch back to windows. I thought it would take a while to get used to , but everything is so well-incorporated and works well that within a week I felt like an old hand. As for me... I'm a semi-switcher, I feel more confortable and productive in MacOS and spend my days cursing the Windows XP I'm in, mainly due to it not doing things like I'm used to in MacOS; but I'm not going to switch as of yet because for a portable I'd need as much as 4 GB maximum RAM, instead of 2 GB, 2 GB might feel great for me now, but that's bound to change, I can't be stuck with 2 GB maximum, due to working needs. As for MacPro, It costs a lot, but I might consider one in the future (instead of a portable), but I'll surely wait for the upgrade to quad core CPU's (Kentsfield core). Those 16 GB maximum RAM are sexy. (I care more about RAM ammount than CPU/GPU clocks).
Haver Posted September 13, 2006 Posted September 13, 2006 You need to enable it - Safari/Preferences/Tabs/EnableTabbedBrowsing. Cheers I find it very hard to be mean or cynical on the Book. I even use emoticons!
That Guy Posted September 13, 2006 Posted September 13, 2006 Garageband just makes you think Wow, I wish I had something to podcast about. I have my Gmail account set-up in Mail but it's not working smoothly yet. EDIT: I thought Safari had tabbed browsing? Thats exactly what I thought when I heard you could make your own podcast. I need to find myself a Karl Pilkington-esque idiot. And what do you mean gmail doesn't work smoothly?
That Guy Posted September 13, 2006 Posted September 13, 2006 OK, so this isn't some weird problem Macs have with Gmail then?
Jon Posted September 13, 2006 Posted September 13, 2006 I've been having problems with mail recently, keeps disconnecting from my web account.
MindFreak Posted September 17, 2006 Posted September 17, 2006 I ordered a MacBook 2.0 GHz with 1 GB of RAM this Wednesday. It'll arrive primo october. Looking forward to it. Though I've never used anything non-Windows, so I'm a bit worried. But I'll learn to use the MacOS in time.
That Guy Posted September 22, 2006 Posted September 22, 2006 Got it last night and its fantastic! I'll write more later as I'm at work right now...
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