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| Thread ID: 95164 | 2008-11-26 09:33:00 | Years of Windows, Just Bought a Mac | Chas (3773) | Press F1 |
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| 723141 | 2008-11-26 09:33:00 | Yeah, I know, can be a touchy subject. I'm running Vista Ultimate on my desktop and just bought a Macbook Pro to replace my Toshiba A7. What I'm interested in knowing more about, is open source software that is available for a Mac. Of particular interest to me is software that is MS Project compatible. I already reckon none, but I would love to be proved wrong. I've been told that a product called Neowin??? Is pretty much the bees knees if I don't want to buy Office. I'm still thinking about that. So have at it. What Mac open source do you think is any good, and what can it do? |
Chas (3773) | ||
| 723142 | 2008-11-26 09:45:00 | Welcome to PF1 Chas - Boy what a way to join a forum - A HOT topic :lol: any ways- have a look at This google search (www.google.co.nz) - you may find something to help. | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 723143 | 2008-11-26 09:54:00 | Congratulations on buying a Mac. OpenOffice is available for Mac OS X as an alternative to Microsoft Office. iWork also does a reasonable job of converting to and from Office documents - although it isn't perfect. | maccrazy (6741) | ||
| 723144 | 2008-11-26 09:56:00 | Yeah, I know, can be a touchy subject . I'm running Vista Ultimate on my desktop and just bought a Macbook Pro to replace my Toshiba A7 . What I'm interested in knowing more about, is open source software that is available for a Mac . Of particular interest to me is software that is MS Project compatible . I already reckon none, but I would love to be proved wrong . I've been told that a product called Neowin??? Is pretty much the bees knees if I don't want to buy Office . I'm still thinking about that . So have at it . What Mac open source do you think is any good, and what can it do? LOL . . . . open source software . . . LOL, windows MS Project compatible . . . LOL |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 723145 | 2008-11-26 10:03:00 | NeoOffice is pretty good, basically a faster version of OO as far as I'm concerned. You might want to consider buying Crossover Mac, it allows you to run native windows apps in Mac OSX. Not all applications work but most games do. |
Blam (54) | ||
| 723146 | 2008-11-26 10:19:00 | Thanks people. I appreciate the replies. NeoOffice that was the one. I blame a very poor memory. And to be honest I thought it would be, LOL... Vista Ultimate... LOL. I got a nice game of poker for the money though. Seriously though, thanks for the help. |
Chas (3773) | ||
| 723147 | 2008-11-26 10:21:00 | np:D That is a nice idea though SolMeister- Open source software that's MS Project compatible Yeah Right |
Blam (54) | ||
| 723148 | 2008-11-26 16:09:00 | Thanks people. I appreciate the replies. NeoOffice that was the one. I blame a very poor memory. And to be honest I thought it would be, LOL. .. Vista Ultimate... LOL. I got a nice game of poker for the money though. Seriously though, thanks for the help. Chas If you change over from Win to Os x I find Fusion a good solution. If you want you can continue pretty much normal(convert your physical PC to a VM) and then take the change over to OSx as fast or as slow as you want. Change over email system from Win to Os x is not necessarily a straight forward process, though possible. |
notechyet (4479) | ||
| 723149 | 2008-11-26 16:38:00 | Isn't there something called Parallels?. That allows virtualisation of other os's on Macs? | jcr1 (893) | ||
| 723150 | 2008-11-26 17:27:00 | 1 This is PC World not MacWorld 2 The reason Windows PC's have much bigger sales is that they are far more customisable and that there is far more software available, both commercial and freeware. |
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