Jim
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ah, there is a way around this ray, give the wife your old comp, then borrow it when needed ..
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A Mac Computer
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ah, there is a way around this ray, give the wife your old comp, then borrow it when needed ..
What is all your software, do you have lots of bought software, list them and I'll check to see what the equivalent is.
Peter
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The main ones are MS Office 2007, Corel Paintshop Pro, Corel Video Studio. The first two are... ahem cracked
There is no MS office for Mac there is MS word, Excel and Powerpoint, so seeing as your is cracked you loose nothing, not a penny.
Paintshop pro used to be available for Mac, it's probably a bit old in the tooth, what do you use it for? Photos? iPhoto is built into the MacOs and is hard to beat for an image app let alone one that is free. I have no idea what corel video studio is if it is to make videos then iMovie is is stunning. You have all kinds of built in software, CD/DVD burning, text editors, image viewers and manipulators. Tell me what you want to do and I will tell you if it is built in or not and what the software is that you would need to crack or god forbid, buy.
I just looked at Corel Video studio and iMovie covers it at least.
Peter
rayf6604
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Corel Video Studio is an editing suite for home movies but to be honest my laptop isn't up to handling HD video from my camcorder so I never use it. Paintshop Pro I use for photos. I'd need an equivalent to Word, Excel and Publisher. I don't use Publisher very much but it's useful for making flyers and the like. It's unfortunate that the source I knew of free copies has retired
iMovie does HD movies it is an editing suite, I have produce all kinds of videos from it, for sale. iPhoto is far superior to paintshop pro for image editing although from what I remember paintshop pro had the use of 3rd party filters which iPhoto doesn't. MS don't make publisher for the Mac, but the others are no problem. there are plenty of free programs to make flyers and the like. When I say free, they are not crap programs. there are loads of shareware apps that cost so little it's not worth worrying about, but there is Pages built in.
Peter
You can put software on the Mac called parallels then put windows7 to run side by side with the Mac OS X or you can use boot up & run windows but with boot up you have to run either windows or Mac OS X. I also have MS Office for Mac which I use but I also use pages, numbers & keynote which is the equivalent of word, excel & PowerPoint. Hope this helps Ray.
Have you tried WPS Office it's a Microsoft Office look alike and its free. Works on multiple OS.
Office Suite Download by WPS Office
Office Suite Download by WPS Office
Good buy there Jim, the kids & good lady wife have had Apple gear for years I finally ditched windows last Xmas & as others have said I've not looked back.
Also don't worry about reading their T's & C's as I read recently :-
Adam & Eve,
The first folk not to read the apple terms & conditions
Also don't worry about reading their T's & C's as I read recently :-
Adam & Eve,
The first folk not to read the apple terms & conditions
Penpal
Grand Master
Just an observer at this stage all done and dusted but I do like my PC 7 inches square by 2 inches thick supported by and a gift in exchange for some beaut timber a etc from a granddaughter and husband in IT the remotely upgrade and load, renew my programs this makes an easy choice for me. Enjoy the new Macs.
Peter.
Peter.
Kawakers
Graduate Member
Good choice Jim, i made the the decision to change from a PC to an iMac 2 years ago now and never looked back and wouldn't want to go back 