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Do I even need bootcamp or Parallels?
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<blockquote data-quote="joshbrez" data-source="post: 404321" data-attributes="member: 26453"><p>martinmartin, I'm running Microsoft Office 2004 on my MacBook Pro, and I don't really experience any performance issues with it. It's a nicely written piece of software, and I think Microsoft did a really good job with it. If you've got the money to spend and your office suite is one of your most important apps (and it sounds like it is), I'd say to spring for Office.</p><p></p><p>OpenOffice.org and NeoOffice are both nice, and it might be worthwhile to give them a whirl, but they both play catchup to the features offered by MS Office. They are less fully featured, but if all you need is basic functionality, they get the job done. To ensure full, unquestioned compatibility with the PC world, however, go with MS Office if you can.</p><p></p><p>In answer to your original question, I don't think you need Parallels or BootCamp for the things you've listed, particularly if you've got MS Office. Running Windows on your Mac should really only be done for those apps that have absolutely no Mac native equivalent, in my opinion, and office applications definitely don't fall into that category.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="joshbrez, post: 404321, member: 26453"] martinmartin, I'm running Microsoft Office 2004 on my MacBook Pro, and I don't really experience any performance issues with it. It's a nicely written piece of software, and I think Microsoft did a really good job with it. If you've got the money to spend and your office suite is one of your most important apps (and it sounds like it is), I'd say to spring for Office. OpenOffice.org and NeoOffice are both nice, and it might be worthwhile to give them a whirl, but they both play catchup to the features offered by MS Office. They are less fully featured, but if all you need is basic functionality, they get the job done. To ensure full, unquestioned compatibility with the PC world, however, go with MS Office if you can. In answer to your original question, I don't think you need Parallels or BootCamp for the things you've listed, particularly if you've got MS Office. Running Windows on your Mac should really only be done for those apps that have absolutely no Mac native equivalent, in my opinion, and office applications definitely don't fall into that category. [/QUOTE]
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