i feel like complaining

[satanicpoptart]

i would bring my tibook to school if i had one, that would be great i would get things done sooo much faster.

[Bluefusion]

Once I get my damn screen repaired, I'll bring in my 300 MHz Blueberry iBook, which with 192 MB of ram STILL runs OS X better than my iceBook/500... pathetic, really.

We use Pentium II 500s, Pentium III 667s, Pentium III 900s, and Pentium II 266s. Of these, one machine (!), a PII 500 or 533, runs Windows really really really well. (Scary, isn't it?) No one can figure it out, as it runs Win98 faster than many far faster machines I know of (it's a 500 and it moves faster than a 933)... but it's never working. When it is, it's REALLY fast (if you can get a hold of it before someone takes it )

I can't wait to have my little temple of Blueness back in school! Even tho it's slow, it's such a joy to use

[Hypernate]

My school has a damned contract with Dell so we get horrible Celeron 2 1ghx machiens. For PC's they're actualy not bad, but I miss my iMac when I'm there.

I seriously can not wait to get my iBook, because even though teh tech guys say i can't connect a mac on a Win2K/Novell network, they obviously havn't met OS X. I will prve them wrong. And once I have that, I have absolutely NO need for the other comps. I have Word. I have IE. What else do I need?

[Bluefusion]

You certainly don't need IE or Word

Seriously, AppleWorks can do anything Word can (that you'd ever need) and yeah, IE is good to have, but don't use it as your default browser! Get the lastest OmniWeb beta; it's getting really good.

Check out Composer on VersionTracker... if you want a simple, easy word processor that looks and acts like a true OS X app, it's the only way to go. Except for reading Word files, it's the best little word processor I've used.

[Valrus]

And if you just need to read .doc files (why would you want to actually EDIT them?), you can get the UNIX command-line app antiword. It converts them to PDF and works pretty well.

-the valrus

[Hypernate]

Err, well seeing as I haev PAID for Office v.X I think I'll use that. And I actually like Word X (I hear flame thowers being loaded :P )

And IE. I'll try OmniWeb, but I don't have any REAL hate against IE just because it's Microsoft. I think it's pretty pathetic to call an app crud just because it has a Microsoft badge on the box.

[Bluefusion]

Oh, no, don't misunderstand me. In fact, many many times I still go back to IE just because of one feature is has, one page it loads correctly, etc. IE is the only MS app I really like using (although, I'll admit, Word v.X has a decent interface, I don't like how everything's so buried). I am NOT just a Microsoft basher. I just don't like their overall app design too much. I mean, you compare Word and Composer. Just try it. Word looks great, Composer looks breathtaking. Word has a lot of features; Composer has most of them done RIGHT.


It's really just a question of the design you like better--Omni-oriented design (a la Composer)--a very clean, somewhat simple interface or multiple-function design (a la Microsoft) where you know you can do just about anything and it's all just a matter of finding the functions you want.

I think that if you do enjoy IE there's probably not much point in using OmniWeb. The only reason I switched is that I loved the OW interface. As for Word vs. other apps, try 'em all, see what suits your work the best.