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Not only did I like OpenOffice, but I have now removed completely MS Office from my system... The uninstallation proved to be more tiresome than I expected (I have written a relevant post about it), but the job is now successfully done!

Hello, As explained in a previous post, I decided to ditch MS Office and switch to OpenOffice instead. I did the transition, and I am happy with it. However, although I uninstalled MS Office through the supplied uninstaller, I found out that several things had remained on my hard disk...

I finally did try it, and it works fine. I think I will use OpenOffice permanently from now on...

Hello, As a user of Windows for so many years, I have also been accustomed to Microsoft's other flagship: Office. When I migrated to Mac, my first move was naturally to work with MS Office for Mac. However, I have heard several people arguing that OpenOffice is a much better (and free)...

Hello all, I have a question which may sound naive, but it really bothers me: Since I am using Time Machine which keeps regular and thorough backups of my Macintosh HD, what is the purpose of the Trash? I mean, Trash occupies a lot of space of my disk, and as I understand it, its role is...

Glad to have so many choices! :-)

Thank you all for your kind advice! I think I'll give Carbon Copy a try, as it looks the most suitable to my needs.

Hello, I have a 250 GB disk in my MacBook Pro, and I would like to buy a bigger one (500 GB, probably). In my previous experience from the Windows environment, there was an application called Norton Ghost, in which you could easily clone the disk, and when the cloned one was inserted into...

I finally put extra 4GB RAM myself too, and the speed indeed improved. I am also planning to buy Elgato turbo.264 HD, which I heard also helps with video encoding.

Hello, After messing with an installation in my hard drive today, I decided to perform a full restore through Time Machine, so as to be sure that everything would be just as it was before. I therefore put my Startup Disk, and chose to restore from a previous location in time during which...

Sadly, this is true... My MacBook does not have the "Higher Performance" option. So, it seems I'll have to wait for a new generation of MacBooks to come out, as upgrading to another Core Duo MBP which simply has a faster clock speed and graphics card does not seem a meaningless option... Let...

Anyone???

Hello all, As I have mentioned in an earlier post, I have only recently switched to a 15'' 2.53 GHz Core Duo MacBook Pro, after many years of living in the Windows world. I am really excited with the switch, as the Mac is way ahead than my previous PCs in terms of stability, functionality...

Thanks a lot to both of you for clarifying all these issues to me... I am new to this forum, but I already have found it of great help.

No, no, I have no stability problems at all... Actually, I have only recently switched to Mac after many years of working with Windows, and I am really greatful I did this move: The performance of my MacBook Pro (a Core Duo) is outstanding, and it is much faster and much more stable than my...

Thanks a lot for the reply, Ben. So, I was completely wrong then: I thought that there are several 64-bit apps out there (especially the well-known ones, such as Office), but I now realized that there are few (if any) existing ones yet... Therefore, since most apps running in my Mac ARE...

Hello, Is there a way to find out whether an app running in our Mac is 32- or 64-bit? OK, I know that big-name apps such Office 2008 or Adobe Acrobat are 64-bit, but what about, say, aMule or Vuze? How can I tell whether such apps that reside in my disk are 32- or 64-bit? And by the way...

Thanks a lot for the reply. I had already read Apple's support document for the M.A., but it did not cover my questions... Fortunately, you now covered all my questions fully! :-) Thanks!

Hello all, I am a newbie in this forum, and this is my first post. The issue I would like to ask some things about, is the Migration Assistant. More specifically, could someone please tell me: 1. Does the M.A. migrate completely everything during a migration, or are there things (e.g...