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Office 2008 for Mac is also available. If you don't want to buy that you can buy Parallels or VMWare Fusion to run Windows, and your old Windows software. However, that does mean you will have the old Windows things that you are trying to get away from.

Or use Boot Camp. either way you still need a copy of Windows to install.

You have lots of options.

And by the way, iTunes rocks. And the iTouch does too.

Nefarious wrote:

iPod Touch is missing the Phone and the Edge Network.   It's also missing a 2-year contract.   So, go for the Touch for now.  (You can sell a Touch a lot easier than an iPhone, if I had to guess.)

As a replacement for a Zune, it is very satisfying.

sturner wrote:

Office 2008 for Mac is also available. If you don't want to buy that you can buy Parallels or VMWare Fusion to run Windows, and your old Windows software. However, that does mean you will have the old Windows things that you are trying to get away from.

Or use Boot Camp. either way you still need a copy of Windows to install.

You have lots of options.

And by the way, iTunes rocks. And the iTouch does too.

If you just want Windows on occasion, you can also try Virtualbox as a open source option.

andrewmoquin wrote:

1) How is iWork? And can you open and save Microsoft Office document?

http://www.apple.com/iwork/compatibility/

Yes.

andrewmoquin wrote:

1) How is iWork? And can you open and save Microsoft Office document?

iWork is good, but the real question is whether its good enough for your purposes.  In terms of features, Office 2008 and iWork are in different leagues (there's a reason Office '08 costs several times more).  I haven't tested the most recent version of iWork, but in my opinion:

• Numbers is fairly intuitive but is missing some key features, most notably regression analyses --trendlines, R^2, everything!  So if you need decent stats support, look elsewhere.

• Keynote makes it almost too easy to make snazzy presentations.  Of course you can do the same and more in PowerPoint, but it seems to require more effort, imo.  The deal-breaker for me is PowerPoint compatibility.  You can export from Keynote to ppt (not pptx), but you'll loose the snazziness that makes Keynote worthwhile.  Importing ppt works less well --Text and graphics can sometimes get cut off or not line up properly.  Compatibility aside, I was impressed with Keynote.

• Pages is, by far, the best tool available for making yard-sale flyers.  For writing, it is perhaps somewhat more useful than TextEdit.  Of all my Mac-wielding friends, I only know of one who uses Pages (and he's a hard-core Mac nut).