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Thinking of getting a mac - but... some newbie questions
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<blockquote data-quote="joshbrez" data-source="post: 414903" data-attributes="member: 26453"><p>Welcome to MacForums, vaughan80! It sounds like a Mac may be a good choice for you. Let me try to answer a few of your questions.</p><p></p><p>Macs cannot play certain video file types out of the box, but easily obtainable free software will give you these capabilities (Flip4Mac, Perian, etc.), so there are no worries there.</p><p></p><p>Yes, Word exists on the Mac. Office:mac is written by Microsoft itself, and is completely compatible with all Office filetypes (.doc, etc.). The education version can be had at the Apple Store for $149.95 and the standard version is for $399.95. Both versions include the standard Word, Excel, and Powerpoint.</p><p></p><p>All images created in Photoshop on a PC can be opened on a Mac, with a variety of applications, including Photoshop.</p><p></p><p>I'm going to leave the font question to someone else. I haven't tried playing around with font compatibility.</p><p></p><p>Most things on a Mac no longer need conversion from the PC filetypes. The days of PC-Mac incompatibility are pretty much over. All standard image and audio filetypes can be opened on your Mac, including .jpg, .png, .bmp, .mp3, .ogg, &c. &c.</p><p></p><p>Your PC software cannot, unfortunately, be installed on your Mac. You'll have to, for example, get the Mac version of Photoshop. The PC and Mac versions of software will, however, generally have the same feature set. Keep in mind with Photoshop that a Universal Binary version for Macs has not yet been released, meaning that the current version runs in emulation on current Macs (which should run with no significant performance problems on a pro-level machine, like the MacBook Pro). The next version of Photoshop will run natively on the new Intel Macs.</p><p></p><p>Hope this helps! Judging from your stated needs, I'd recommend a MacBook Pro. They're great machines.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="joshbrez, post: 414903, member: 26453"] Welcome to MacForums, vaughan80! It sounds like a Mac may be a good choice for you. Let me try to answer a few of your questions. Macs cannot play certain video file types out of the box, but easily obtainable free software will give you these capabilities (Flip4Mac, Perian, etc.), so there are no worries there. Yes, Word exists on the Mac. Office:mac is written by Microsoft itself, and is completely compatible with all Office filetypes (.doc, etc.). The education version can be had at the Apple Store for $149.95 and the standard version is for $399.95. Both versions include the standard Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. All images created in Photoshop on a PC can be opened on a Mac, with a variety of applications, including Photoshop. I'm going to leave the font question to someone else. I haven't tried playing around with font compatibility. Most things on a Mac no longer need conversion from the PC filetypes. The days of PC-Mac incompatibility are pretty much over. All standard image and audio filetypes can be opened on your Mac, including .jpg, .png, .bmp, .mp3, .ogg, &c. &c. Your PC software cannot, unfortunately, be installed on your Mac. You'll have to, for example, get the Mac version of Photoshop. The PC and Mac versions of software will, however, generally have the same feature set. Keep in mind with Photoshop that a Universal Binary version for Macs has not yet been released, meaning that the current version runs in emulation on current Macs (which should run with no significant performance problems on a pro-level machine, like the MacBook Pro). The next version of Photoshop will run natively on the new Intel Macs. Hope this helps! Judging from your stated needs, I'd recommend a MacBook Pro. They're great machines. [/QUOTE]
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