On 2010-02-22 skacleve, Ohio wrote: Although I once worked on a G4, I´ve been primarily a PC user for years, as that is what my employer has for me. We purchased an iMac for our home a few years ago, as Apple products have such a great reputation for reliability, and they claim to be more ´intuitive´ than PCs. Some Mac-users we know claim they are too. However, if you are used to using PC software, primarily Microsoft, you will find Mac programs are not so intuitive. In fact, you may find them extremely limited. I feel I have to jump through more hoops with the iMac to accomplish the same things (if I can do it at all) that I would do on the PC more easily. When you want things to happen fast, even one extra step or click required can be maddening. Even if the iMac is less prone, or immune, to viruses a PC may get, and even if it is less likely to freeze up, I´m not as happy with the way the Mac software functions.
I don´t use Numbers or Keynote at home, so I can´t speak for those. I work mostly with word processing software, and Pages just doesn´t offer the same easy access to funtions that Word does (although with the new Word 2007, I´m disliking that in some respects too). There are fewer printing options available, and printing documents in Pages or off the Internet is an exercise in frustration. Forget about printing selected areas of pages off the Internet, or formatting web pages to fit onto single pieces of paper, or printing with black ink only on a color printer (not sure if the last problem is our new Snow Leopard OS, as we used to be able to print only in black ink). Pages does not allow you to display many function buttons in your tool bar, and those available are extremely limited. They offer about 50 (of which you may display about 32 if your screen spans across the whole monitor), most of which I would never need, whereas Word offers a couple hundred to choose from. There´s not even a Save or Save As button for the iMac toolbar, and everyone uses that! To access most formatting functions, you have to open a submenu, called the Inspector, but that is an extra step I don´t wish to go through.
I haven´t tried anything creative with Pages, but judging by how unhappy I have been with simple text formatting, I don´t even want to bother. At least Pages recognizes Word documents and will open them, but it´s inconvenient to have Pages documents when someone you want to forward it to doesn´t have Pages to open it. I wish I could save documents as .doc files in Pages. If I wanted to forward a resume to a potential employer, I wouldn´t send a Pages file, so I´d have to get it to a PC to convert and send it. What an inconvenience. I looked into getting Word for Mac, but it´s expensive, which is why we went with iWork. Now that I´ve tried Pages, I´m going to have to get Word and forget about using Pages.. And summed up by saying PC users may not like some of these. Currently Apple iWork ´08 [OLD VERSION] has an overall rating of 8 over 10.
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Apple claimed With iWork ´08, you get three easy-to-use applications in one package. Pages offers powerful word processing and page layout with 140 Apple-designed templates--and all the writing and graphics tools you need to create beautiful documents. Keynote lets you effortlessly create stunning presentations, complete with Apple-designed themes, cinema-quality animations, and voiceover narration. The innovative new Numbers makes it easier than ever to create compelling spreadsheets for everything from family budgets and event planning to invoices and complex financial reports. And all three applications give you import and export compatibility with Microsoft Office. So whatever you need to communicate, do it beautifully with iWork �08.
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