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MacBook for an Economics student [qst: Office for mac]
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<blockquote data-quote="yogi" data-source="post: 596401" data-attributes="member: 8542"><p>I am an Economics student myself.</p><p></p><p>Though I am not in the Accounting line, I know for sure that those doing accounting use only SAP - I don't think it's Mac-compatible. But most of these guys tell me they have to do most work by hand and hardly use SAP.</p><p></p><p>Business administration and economics are highly text-based social studies. I've been using a Mac in this line for a while now and hardly ever ran into any problem. The biggest problem I had was a CD with some videos that didn't run on my Mac - I needed to get Windows for that.</p><p></p><p>But my best guess would be that you won't be using accounting software all the time (about 10% max) and thus would recommend a Mac.</p><p></p><p>I also suggest you see your Uni's website for any list of software, computer recommendations and ask senior students if you know any</p><p></p><p>You won't get to the Software part of accounting for at least a year or two anyway. </p><p></p><p>As for Office 2008: It works like a charm and handles Office 2007 very well. It's quite different, and lacks some of the novelties introduced in Windows, but it does a solid job and I use it every day.</p><p></p><p>Excel is full-fledged and knows all the formulae, again I have never encountered any problem in Excel but I also haven't pushed the limits. Really depends on what you're expecting to do with it <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="yogi, post: 596401, member: 8542"] I am an Economics student myself. Though I am not in the Accounting line, I know for sure that those doing accounting use only SAP - I don't think it's Mac-compatible. But most of these guys tell me they have to do most work by hand and hardly use SAP. Business administration and economics are highly text-based social studies. I've been using a Mac in this line for a while now and hardly ever ran into any problem. The biggest problem I had was a CD with some videos that didn't run on my Mac - I needed to get Windows for that. But my best guess would be that you won't be using accounting software all the time (about 10% max) and thus would recommend a Mac. I also suggest you see your Uni's website for any list of software, computer recommendations and ask senior students if you know any You won't get to the Software part of accounting for at least a year or two anyway. As for Office 2008: It works like a charm and handles Office 2007 very well. It's quite different, and lacks some of the novelties introduced in Windows, but it does a solid job and I use it every day. Excel is full-fledged and knows all the formulae, again I have never encountered any problem in Excel but I also haven't pushed the limits. Really depends on what you're expecting to do with it :-) [/QUOTE]
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