| I've been using Keynote for the past couple of weeks, and I've fallen in love with it. It's certainly more simplified than PowerPoint, but I consider this a strength, not a weakness. PowerPoint's design layout is more open-ended, allowing you more design and animation options, but this discourages good consistent design. Furthermore, it's more difficult to use, and it takes longer to create even a simple outline presentation. Keynote makes it easy.
Keynote's file conversion from PowerPoint is pretty good, but not flawless. However, I haven't noticed any significant bugs other than a little bit of unpredictable rendering of text and text builds. Even when the exact same font is installed on the Mac as the PC running PPT, text blocks won't always wrap at exactly the same places, leaving words "dangling," running off the screen, or just not appearing where they were supposed to. In one case, the PC displayed a font as oblique by default, and the Mac displayed it as regular, by default. Sometimes text builds do not perform as expected, as well. All of those problems can be somewhat easily fixed with some manual tweaking, however.  |