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

[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.