iWork
Posted by Skrud at Monday, June 13th 2005 at 11:22am
I bought iWork today at the Concordia Computer Store (it was about $10 cheaper than the Apple store). I may not use word processing software that often, but over the last month or so I have been using Pages to take class notes in my ENGR202 class, and when the trial version had expired I begun using TextEdit – with notable disappointment. Pages is really some excellent software. I also plan to use Keynote for the courses I’ll be TAing come the next semester.
The box comes with the cutest little User Guides… nice little pocket-book sized guides. It certainly beats that ∞-sized textbook that ships with MS Office. :P
This is also proves that I will buy software if it is reasonably priced. (iWork costs $59 +tx.). Don’t expect me to plunk down ~$200 for Office Student Edition anytime soon ever.
Office 2004 can be kind of worth it for anyone who needs to use Excel documents that are too complex and multimedia-filled for OO.org or Gnumeric (though I happen to like Gnumeric a lot). Not that I PURCHASED it, but I do need to use Excel quite frequently. And they really improved on the Windows counterpart a lot.
I checked it out. The McGill Computer Store was not completely honest with me. They told me it would be $99 for Office 2004. Turns out it’s $99 to get a LICENCE for Office 2004 (http://www.mcs.mcgill.ca/mselect.htm) and all you get is the CD. No packaging, manuals or support. Fucking Microsoft.
Skrud doesn’t ever need to use Excel. (Watch me eat those words later – but expect a battle against whomever is pushing the Excel requirement on me).
Reminds me too much of frontpage. But im sure its a little better ;)