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<blockquote data-quote="Veej" data-source="post: 713106" data-attributes="member: 44734">It's not really a question of office 2008 - I've got it and I'm properly fed up of it! Many things suck with it, a few recent cases:1. I'm an economics student. I used to be able to whip up sketch graphs (i.e. no numbers behind it, just drawing so can't use Excel) in 2 minutes using Word 2007. In Word 2008, I can't position lines properly. i.e. If you try and move a line you have drawn it jumps like a centimeter, there's no way of fine tuning it on Word 08.2. I was creating a survey for one of my projects, so I just got a survey I'd made previously with Word 2007 (PC)... open it up in Word 08 and poof, there's no squares (yeah, it's complicated, gotta see it to understand!)Oh and Fatboydim, you're right... it's all just for the solitaire <img src="/mac_images/images/smilies/Angry-Tongue.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":Angry-Tongue:" title="Angry Tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :Angry-Tongue:" data-shortname=":Angry-Tongue:" /> So, basically the consensus is not to use Bootcamp? I've also read that Parallels runs slightly hotter than VMWare Fusion so I'll stick to Fusion rather than Parallels. Can you actually use the laptop on your lap while running Fusion or is it too hot? (I've got Lobotomo fan control, so can set the fans to around 4000RPM while using Fusion)Cheers!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Veej, post: 713106, member: 44734"] It's not really a question of office 2008 - I've got it and I'm properly fed up of it! Many things suck with it, a few recent cases: 1. I'm an economics student. I used to be able to whip up [B]sketch[/B] graphs (i.e. no numbers behind it, just drawing so can't use Excel) in 2 minutes using Word 2007. In Word 2008, I can't position lines properly. i.e. If you try and move a line you have drawn it jumps like a centimeter, there's no way of fine tuning it on Word 08. 2. I was creating a survey for one of my projects, so I just got a survey I'd made previously with Word 2007 (PC)... open it up in Word 08 and poof, there's no squares (yeah, it's complicated, gotta see it to understand!) Oh and Fatboydim, you're right... it's all just for the solitaire :Angry-Tongue: So, basically the consensus is not to use Bootcamp? I've also read that Parallels runs slightly hotter than VMWare Fusion so I'll stick to Fusion rather than Parallels. Can you actually use the laptop on your lap while running Fusion or is it too hot? (I've got Lobotomo fan control, so can set the fans to around 4000RPM while using Fusion) Cheers! [/QUOTE]

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