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1K down the tubes?
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<blockquote data-quote="dtravis7" data-source="post: 1285603" data-attributes="member: 8287"><p>Windows stock out of the box does not come with anything more than a simple text editing program that is far less useful than Textedit on OSX. If you buy some brands of machines, MS Office is included but it's most always a 60 day trial so you still have to purchase it.</p><p></p><p>The other posters gave you good advice on Productivity apps. Most are free also. As was said, textedit will open most normal Word documents. I personally use iWork but that is $79, but Open Office and Libre Office are free and even more features.</p><p></p><p>Any external drive should at least mount on the desktop. If it's NTFS, like Linux stock, you can just read but not write but Write support can be enabled from OSX or with some software.</p><p></p><p>How are the drives formatted? What drives are they? Brand? Interface? Format?</p><p></p><p>Open Applications and utilities and run Disk Utility. Do the external drives show up there? Let us know.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dtravis7, post: 1285603, member: 8287"] Windows stock out of the box does not come with anything more than a simple text editing program that is far less useful than Textedit on OSX. If you buy some brands of machines, MS Office is included but it's most always a 60 day trial so you still have to purchase it. The other posters gave you good advice on Productivity apps. Most are free also. As was said, textedit will open most normal Word documents. I personally use iWork but that is $79, but Open Office and Libre Office are free and even more features. Any external drive should at least mount on the desktop. If it's NTFS, like Linux stock, you can just read but not write but Write support can be enabled from OSX or with some software. How are the drives formatted? What drives are they? Brand? Interface? Format? Open Applications and utilities and run Disk Utility. Do the external drives show up there? Let us know. [/QUOTE]
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