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abuelo · 2006-03-17 7:05 pm

went down to the apple store today, test driving imac intel. looked for appleworks and when i couldn't find it i asked the people about it. they said it's not supported by intel. so i said how could i write something then if i get this. they said i can buy microsoft office. or else a thing called iwrite or iwork i forgot.
now here's the thing. i been a faithful mac all my computing life. i mean starting with mac classic ok? i've made thousands of appleworks docs. i am very happy with appleworks. but now look. so they got text edit. great. but it's hardly the same now is it?

the machine i was playing with had gates works in it. is that what i'm spose to do? convert to the evil empire? steve jobs should be ashamed of himself.

i hope this old emac lasts forever.

how did it come to this? ain't anyone else a little bit nervous? macs are not macs anymore if they don't work on intel

Donkey Butter · 2006-03-17 8:19 pm

iWork includes two programs.Pages which is your word processing app and Keynote which is a presentation app. both are apple application. Pages will open all your appleworks documents. and it will work on your intel Mac

Last edited by Donkey Butter (2006-03-17 8:34 pm)

MacBoy4139 · 2006-03-18 9:15 am

And give you better performance than your old eMac.

oatmeal · 2006-03-18 11:08 am

I haven't tried this for any length of time, but it looks promising:
http://www.neooffice.org/

In brief, it's MS Office not produced by MS, distributed for free. Opens office files natively.

hawaiian717 · 2006-03-18 11:38 am

Donkey Butter wrote:
Pages will open all your appleworks documents.

AppleWorks is more than just a word processor. Can Pages really open Spreadsheet, Drawing, Painting, and Database files? Pages has rudimentary spreadsheet support, so that might work. And Presentation documents might be able to be opened in Keynote, I don't know. I did a quick Google search, and and it sounds like AppleWorks does run under Rosetta.

AppleWorks seems to be the program that, as much as Apple would like it to, refuses to die. big_smile Apple still sells it.

webdesbw · 2006-03-22 12:22 am

I would also be curious to know if it opens spreadsheets... if now, then what? Office?

Also, I've seen iWorks bundled with something called "Calc", supposedly the best spreadsheet software for the Mac. Any ideas how this works?

jayster · 2006-04-03 1:50 am

Apple Works 6 Runs just fine on the Intel mac, it just doesn't come with it. I copied the directory off my G4 mac mini to my new 20" iMac core duo and it runs with no problems. So if you have apple works 6 on your current mac just copy it over to the new mac

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#1 2006-03-17 7:05 pm

imac, intel, tiger

#2 2006-03-17 8:19 pm

Re: imac, intel, tiger

#3 2006-03-18 9:15 am

Re: imac, intel, tiger

#4 2006-03-18 11:08 am

Re: imac, intel, tiger

#5 2006-03-18 11:38 am

Re: imac, intel, tiger

Donkey Butter wrote:

#6 2006-03-22 12:22 am

Re: imac, intel, tiger

#7 2006-04-03 1:50 am

Re: imac, intel, tiger

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