Location: Surrey or Sheffield, UK.. or I might even be in Aarhus, Denmark
Posts: 73
Mac Specs: iMac 24" (mid-2009 edition), 2.66Ghz, 4GB, 640GB HDD
Various Apps and Multiple Macs
Hey all,
Firstly a disclaimer: if anything I speak of actually goes against the copyright of any of the packages I mention it's only through sheer ignorance, I want to do things by the book!
In my house we currently have two Macs which might increase to three before long. When I got mine, I rather dumbly just bought the single license of iWork rather than the family pack, so I've resigned myself to the fact I'll need another one day (there's no way to just purchase another license is there for a smaller cost?)
Otherwise, I've been thinking of getting Roxio Toast, and I'm not sure - if I buy it, can I install it on more than one Mac?
How about Office 2008 for Mac (which I might get instead of iWork for the new one and then maybe install on the current ones, if it's possible)?
Mac Specs: Mac Pro, 3.2 GHz 8 Core, 8 GB RAM, 2*750 GB Disk, nVidia 8800 GT
Office 2008 can be installed on up to three machines, so you are OK there.
You might wish to consider NeoOffice though. It is open source freeware, VERY MS Office compatible (at least up to Office 2004) and is very well regarded.
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My Macs: Mac Pro, 3.2 GHz 8 Core, MacBook Pro, 2.2 GHz C2D
My iStuff: 32 GB iPhone 3G S, 30 GB iPod Video, 16 GB iPod Touch
My OS': Mac OS X Leopard, Mac OS X Tiger, openSUSE 10.3, Win XP
I was on the Mac-Forums honor roll for September 2007
You might wish to consider NeoOffice though. It is open source freeware, VERY MS Office compatible (at least up to Office 2004) and is very well regarded.
Up to Office 2008. OpenOffice.org and NeoOffice offered support for the new '08 xml formats even before Microsoft offered an update to make Office '04 compatible with them.
If you look at a lot of the license agreements now a days, most of them say 1 computer for multiple users or multiple computers for one user. You just need to check the EULA (End User License Agreement) for each app. I have 2 Macs (iMac and MacBook) and have most of my apps on both because the EULA allows me to. Do note that some will not allow you to open the app on both computers at the same time, but if you're doing that, you'd probably be breaking the EULA, so that makes sense.
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MacBook: 2GHz, 2GB RAM, Core Duo; iMac: 2.4GHz, 3GB RAM, 500GB HDD. Both running Leopard; 160GB iPod Classic; and 16GB iPhone 3G, 1st 8GB Gen iPod Touch
