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Possibly taking the plunge

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mason_msw

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I am a lifetime PC user, looking to go to the cooler more in depth experience of the mac. But I love and use my MS office all the time, student and soon to be business man. I know there are Office for mac programs available now, but I currently own three licenses for MS office is there anyway to run this or export to a usable on pc file on a G4 Powerbook?
 
Not that I know of.

You can install Windows on the Intel Macs though. So you could run Office that way if you needed to.
 
If you are going to make the move, go all the way.

Office 2004 is splendid on Mac.

If you have kids in school, or in school yourself, you can get thed much cheaper Student's version.
 
You can run your Windows copy of Office either by dualbooting Windows with Bootcamp, or straight from Mac OS X with Parallels. You might want to try a demo of Office for OS X though, you might find that you like it more.
 
It is more of a money issue at the moment, Being a student and all. I am sure I will buy the student version soon but not just yet. I Know I can buy the full version of MS office at the university for $18 I wonder if that is true for Mac version as well.... Hmmm

So it is possible to do though on the non dual core G4 1.33mghz processors?
 
Theres no way to run any windows program on a pre-intel macintosh...

Except with a PC emulator like the one Microsoft.
 
Office 2004 on an Intel Apple SUCKS.

My iMac has a Core 2 Duo 2.16 MHz chip w/ 1 GM RAM – and it bogs down on large files over 5 MB, like PowerPoints. Can’t really blame anyone, there is only so much emulation can do, and asking M$ to recode a program that is so near its end of life date for such a limited market would also be unfair.

If you do a lot of large documents in Office, then I would suggest dual boot.

We should have a new mac office in 6 - 9 months, but seeing how Vista went - I would not be shocked to see it in 2008.

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technol...announces_intent_to_ship_mac_office_2007.html
 
Ok one more question, are the processor speeds equivelant in Macs-PC's for instance, I have a 1.5mghz gateway at the moment and with 512 or a gig of ram it works great for me. Will the 1.33MGHZ G4 be comprable or is it slanted one way or the other. Sorry I am very very new to this.
 
mason_msw said:
Ok one more question, are the processor speeds equivelant in Macs-PC's for instance, I have a 1.5mghz gateway at the moment and with 512 or a gig of ram it works great for me. Will the 1.33MGHZ G4 be comprable or is it slanted one way or the other. Sorry I am very very new to this.
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1. Who makes the CPU and what type is it? For example, an AMD running at 1.5 GHz and a Pentium 4 running at the same speed or not compariable.

Also, it depends on the apps.

However, as a general rule - Mac's using lower clocked CPU's have been able to as well as P4's. So, using this, the 1.33 will be the same if not better.
 
mason_msw said:
ntel® Celeron® M Processor 370
1 MB L2 Cache | 1.5 GHz | 400 MHz FSB

Straight off of gateway so I dont muck it up ^

Link if needed:http://support.gateway.com/s/Mobile/Q106/MagicLC/1008829sp2.shtml

Thanks you guys are great for helping me out with such juvenille questions!
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A 1.3ghz G4 is faster than a 1.5ghz Celeron... I used to have a Celeron M clocked at 1.66mhz (school issued laptop, sigh) that was significantly slower than my 1ghz G4. Course, in CPU intensive stuff they were about equal, but the G4 laptop just seemed one hell of a lot more responsive during memory heavy tasks.

Have you ever tried alt-tabbing through stuff while encoding a DVD, or out of a game etc? It's getting around stuff like that, that makes a macintosh "appear" faster than it's PC counterpart, even if the raw horsepower is similar.

Mac's LOVE Ram. I'd rather have a 1ghz G4 with 2gb of RAM than a 1.67ghz G4 with 512mb RAM... Without a question.

Going from 512mb Ram in my 768mhz G4 (i've had alot of powerbooks lol) to 1gb practically doubled it's lifetime.

That laptop (1.33ghz) would be great, but get it some RAM, at least a GB, to make it really shine.
 
I dont know what your budget it, but the apple store online has some nice refurb macbooks available for less than $1000 USD. check it out.

i bought one new last may on a whim, and ever since then i'm dying to ditch my desktop PC and move on to a mac pro or an imac. i'd never really used a mac before, but i love them now and i bet you will too.
 
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