All right. Screw this

[pegkerr]

This has been going on since the week before Christmas. I have absolutely positively had it. Bill Gates can jolly well bite my bum.

I'm going into Rob's store and buying a MacIntosh this afternoon.

Yet more thing on the credit card. *sigh*

Comments

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Since Rob works there, can the technicians who are presumably still in possession of your old hard drive dump all your data to the new machine?

Maybe someone can come up with some free software for you, too. Microsoft Office is not cheap. I don't have another license myself.

K.

[von-krag.livejournal.com]

There's a Student-Teacher issue of Office for Mac. IIRC it's about 150$. I use Abi-Word and like it, there's also Open Office for OS X. I'd agree the one best thing to do to a new iMac is add RAM, 512 at the minimum a full gig is way better. I finf Virex much less a pain than Norton in anti-virus.

If the the old drive as at all useable burn the files you need then transfer. Heck MNSTF has a LOT of Mac users to support switchers.

[chance88088.livejournal.com]

I agree - add as much ram as you can afford - with their compact design they are nearly as bad as a laptop to tinker in.

[ex-radparker580.livejournal.com]

I would not rely on Open Office for OS X. I found it to be counter-intuitive for anbody who isn't an X-windows geek, and I am an X-windows geek. It's just not as slick as the Windows version of Open Office.

There is some Open Office-fork that puts a real Mac windowing interface around it, but the name escapes me at the moment.

If I were Peg and it were doable, I'd probably just buy the real MS Word or MS Office. Otherwise she'll spend some amount of time fiddling as opposed to Just Writing.