iWork '08 or MS Office?

Johnny87 · Oct 31, 2007

Which one do you use? I did use MS Office but recently made the switch to iWork, which one do you think is better ?

Macboy · Oct 31, 2007

I use NeoOffice, its just like MS word for Mac, only its free.

BlackCivic · Oct 31, 2007

There is also openoffice which is free too

Macboy · Oct 31, 2007

Ya I had problems downloading openoffice, coz for some resson I dont have X11 on my system.

Johnny87 · Oct 31, 2007

i dont really like neo office...

Macboy · Nov 1, 2007

To me there all a much of a muchness.Its good enuff for me to do my basic world stuff pluss being that every office in Australia works on world Neo was better then iWorks . I did not see the point of buying MS Office or iWork's for $80 (or what ever they cost) when Neooffice is all I need, and considering apple dont includ the basic world app's any more, apart from TXT edit( dont know why) I was not going to spend even more money on my very nice, but exstreamly over priced MacBook and Tiger system's.

For some resson, we here in Oz pay far more for our Mac's then you Guys any where eales around the world.Drives me crazzy.

Johnny87 · Nov 1, 2007

Macboy said:
To me there all a much of a muchness.Its good enuff for me to do my basic world stuff pluss being that every office in Australia works on world Neo was better then iWorks . I did not see the point of buying MS Office or iWork's for $80 (or what ever they cost) when Neooffice is all I need, and considering apple dont includ the basic world app's any more, apart from TXT edit( dont know why) I was not going to spend even more money on my very nice, but exstreamly over priced MacBook and Tiger system's.

For some resson, we here in Oz pay far more for our Mac's then you Guys any where eales around the world.Drives me crazzy.

i know man, im Australian too, its really highly priced down here

Macboy · Nov 1, 2007

I know and I cant understand why.Its realy silly, I mean for my MacBook I payed $3500 for and the US it would have been $2800 at the time.

I just bought the New System for $AU158 at apple.com.au in US it is $132 at apple.com and at amazon.com it is $AU117. Thats $41 diffrents. No one can tell me it cost apple that much to ship in, even with there mark-up.

Johnny87 · Nov 1, 2007

i know i know, but theres nothing we can do about it...

jSchultz · Nov 1, 2007

I just got iWork '08 to see what it was all about. Keynote and Numbers are pretty cool, and so is Pages..but...it seems like more of the same.

The only thing I don't like about pages is the lack of notebook view. In MS Word, you can trigger the notebook view, and use your mouse to "scribble" on the page for notes. EXTREMELY valuable to me when I take notes in class.

Johnny87 · Nov 1, 2007

jSchultz said:
I just got iWork '08 to see what it was all about. Keynote and Numbers are pretty cool, and so is Pages..but...it seems like more of the same.

The only thing I don't like about pages is the lack of notebook view. In MS Word, you can trigger the notebook view, and use your mouse to "scribble" on the page for notes. EXTREMELY valuable to me when I take notes in class.

geeez, i didnt even know word could do that, thats cool

Macboy · Nov 1, 2007

I did not know that ithere.

Mac_OS · Nov 1, 2007

Johnny87 said:
geeez, i didnt even know word could do that, thats cool

how do you do that?

schweb · Nov 1, 2007

Please use search. This topic has been discussed ad nauseum.

Closing thread.