Dear MacForums community
I'm looking forward to studying Economics and Management sciences next year at Uni. Before then, I intend to sell my current Desktop PC to swich for a Laptop. As I was looking around what were the different offers about Laptops on the web, I just saw somewhere an ad for Apple. I then started to investigate Apple's offers and tried to get an idea of what Mac clearly was.
I've been using PCs for now at least 7 years and I know them as Windows by heart. I build my own PCs and never got any virus or really bad crashing issues from Windows thanks to my careful using and maintenance. I precise this since many "swichers" get on Mac mainly because they couldn't run Windows properly. Well that's not my case .
I indeed would be very much interested in switching to a Mac, mainly because of curiosity. I've heard and read so much things about them that I have to try and not only rely upon external testimonies. Now here is my question (after this looong intro , which helps you being aware of the situation ).
As my incoming studies will be Economics, Finance and Accounting oriented, I need to get a really good and full productivity application suite. Since I've been used to work on Microsoft Office, and because this is the most common and used suite of applications throughout the world, I clearly want to use it on my possible mac.
I've seen Microsoft has released an Mac version of Office 2008 however feedbacks about it are controversial. (I'm mainly focused on excel.) To some users, Office08 for Mac is the true copy of Office for PC, with some layout and functionning changes. That means that the content and depth are the same. To some others however, Office08 for Mac is bugged and excell does not have as many possibilities as the one for windows.
So my questions are:
Thank you for your answers and consideration .
I'm looking forward to studying Economics and Management sciences next year at Uni. Before then, I intend to sell my current Desktop PC to swich for a Laptop. As I was looking around what were the different offers about Laptops on the web, I just saw somewhere an ad for Apple. I then started to investigate Apple's offers and tried to get an idea of what Mac clearly was.
I've been using PCs for now at least 7 years and I know them as Windows by heart. I build my own PCs and never got any virus or really bad crashing issues from Windows thanks to my careful using and maintenance. I precise this since many "swichers" get on Mac mainly because they couldn't run Windows properly. Well that's not my case .
I indeed would be very much interested in switching to a Mac, mainly because of curiosity. I've heard and read so much things about them that I have to try and not only rely upon external testimonies. Now here is my question (after this looong intro , which helps you being aware of the situation ).
As my incoming studies will be Economics, Finance and Accounting oriented, I need to get a really good and full productivity application suite. Since I've been used to work on Microsoft Office, and because this is the most common and used suite of applications throughout the world, I clearly want to use it on my possible mac.
I've seen Microsoft has released an Mac version of Office 2008 however feedbacks about it are controversial. (I'm mainly focused on excel.) To some users, Office08 for Mac is the true copy of Office for PC, with some layout and functionning changes. That means that the content and depth are the same. To some others however, Office08 for Mac is bugged and excell does not have as many possibilities as the one for windows.
So my questions are:
Have you experienced Office 2008 for Mac along with Office 2007 for PC ? If Yes, how was the difference ? Is Excell as fully developped on Macs as on Windows ?
Will I lose possibilities (except my hardcore gamer career ) by using a Mac instead of a PC as a student in economics ?
Thank you for your answers and consideration .