session Posted January 4, 2004 Share Posted January 4, 2004 My friend is going to buy a Mac, but before that, he has some questions 1. Kazaa or p2p replacement? 2. Is Office X good? Or any word process replacement? 3. Does Mac support multilanguages? What input (to type languages other than English) programs are available? 4. Could Windows XP run smoothly on Virtual PC on Mac? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted January 4, 2004 Veteran Share Posted January 4, 2004 1 - Poisoned 2 - Yes, but kOffice is now on Mac OSX natively, and may present competition. 3 - Yes, right to left, Asian, etc. It does all that jazz. 4 - Smoothly? Barely. I used it for extreme situations, but you generally want to restrict your use of VPC to necessary situations. More often than not, you can do something natively in OSX, rather than firing up VPC... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaron901 Posted January 4, 2004 Share Posted January 4, 2004 1. there are a few kazaa replacement, Poisoned is a good one. 2. Office v.X is very good. 3. yes, and you don't need any programs to do that. 4. no. you better use a PC if you want Windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plasticparadox Posted January 4, 2004 Share Posted January 4, 2004 My friend is going to buy a Mac, but before that, he has some questions1. Kazaa or p2p replacement? 2. Is Office X good? Or any word process replacement? 3. Does Mac support multilanguages? What input (to type languages other than English) programs are available? 4. Could Windows XP run smoothly on Virtual PC on Mac? 1. Poisoned[/b]b> 2. Office X is great. I like it better than Office XP. 3. Yeah. I'm computing in English on the Japanese version of Panther. I could do any language, actually. 4. Not really. But wait for MacWorld (Jan. 6). Microsoft is going to announce something about VirtualPC - expect better performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deviantdesigns Posted January 4, 2004 Share Posted January 4, 2004 1. Acquisition if you dont mind paying, or acqlite [free] if you want a kazaalite version thingy of acquisition 2. I like it, its ok, but i'd prefer Office 2003, but Office X does what it needs to do 3. Yup, auto installed with the os, no extra application needed 4. Ahh not for everyday use, if you had an extreme case where you couldnt get to a windows os and u need it for a specific app. or something, you'd be able to use vpc with windows but its HELLA slow!!! Its just easier to use an equiviant software to mac, or just use windows for that specific thing u need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Patriot Posted January 4, 2004 Share Posted January 4, 2004 My friend is going to buy a Mac, but before that, he has some questions1. Kazaa or p2p replacement? 2. Is Office X good? Or any word process replacement? 3. Does Mac support multilanguages? What input (to type languages other than English) programs are available? 4. Could Windows XP run smoothly on Virtual PC on Mac? 1. Add in another vote for Poisoned 2. I actually like it better than Office XP 3. I don't use any other languages, so I can't comment on it, but I do notice that web pages in other languages look better on OS X than on XP 4. That would probably depend on the speed of your machine. Remember that VPC does not currently run on G5's (but since there is supposed to be some big VPC announcement at MWSF, that will probably be it). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
session Posted January 4, 2004 Author Share Posted January 4, 2004 1 - Poisoned2 - Yes, but kOffice is now on Mac OSX natively, and may present competition. 3 - Yes, right to left, Asian, etc. It does all that jazz. 4 - Smoothly? Barely. I used it for extreme situations, but you generally want to restrict your use of VPC to necessary situations. More often than not, you can do something natively in OSX, rather than firing up VPC... Is xOffice free? :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xero Posted January 4, 2004 Share Posted January 4, 2004 no lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
session Posted January 4, 2004 Author Share Posted January 4, 2004 no? :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xero Posted January 4, 2004 Share Posted January 4, 2004 no :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the evn show Posted January 4, 2004 Share Posted January 4, 2004 xOffice (to the best of my googling) isn't actual software. Microsoft Office X is retail software from the worlds favorite monopoly. OpenOffice is free software but because it's not OS X native (it's *NIX software) you will have to run X11 on your computer too (not hard - it's even included on the Panther install discs) unfortunatly it won't feel like a 'real' os x application. kOffice is fairly good, is free, and is running on QT/mac. The install is fairly involved (by macintosh standards) and the qt libraries are not fully macified so some things will feel out of place. The port has been building for about 3 days so I think it's a little early to use it if you're not familar with kOffice already. In the future this will become a full mac os application - it'll just take some time. AbiWord etc. will all compile with fink. Like openoffice you'll need x11 installed and they won't feel like other os x applications but they're free and fairly easy to install. If you've used the *NIX versions then you'll feel at home here. Appleworks. Well, it's outdated but it works. Apple gives it away with their consumer products (iMac/iBook) so you might get it for free and you can make your own judgements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
session Posted January 4, 2004 Author Share Posted January 4, 2004 If he has some Microsoft Word 2003 documents, can he open them in AppleWorks? (He's getting a powerbook I think, hopefully Appleworks will be included! :s) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the evn show Posted January 4, 2004 Share Posted January 4, 2004 Powerbooks don't include appleworks (mine didn't anyway). You can open basic word documents in appleworks - and in textedit for that matter. Anything beyond the basic doc format will require something more substantial: - koffice - openoffice - microsoft office x ^ listed in order of compatibility, and reverse order of ease-of-install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seen_xu Posted January 5, 2004 Share Posted January 5, 2004 koffice is free download? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted January 5, 2004 Veteran Share Posted January 5, 2004 Wait until tomorrow, Apple recently trademarked iWrite, so we'll have to see if the MacWorld keynote shows anythign about that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the evn show Posted January 5, 2004 Share Posted January 5, 2004 kOffice is GPL code - it's free to use, free to share, free to sell (yes, you could change half a dozen files, compile them and sell the whole thing again), free to edit, and well, generally free all the way around. check out the official website: http://koffice.org/ and if that impresses you, look what just got posted here: http://kde.opendarwin.org/ we have kOffice binaries already (remember koffice for mac/qt is still extremely young - it's only been working for about a week) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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