Comments on: Mac Mini http://www.rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2005/04/20/mac-mini/ Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:37:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: John http://www.rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2005/04/20/mac-mini/#comment-3700 John Tue, 26 Jul 2005 20:18:52 +0000 http://www.rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2005/04/20/mac-mini/#comment-3700 Now it's 26 July. What's your second impression? Now it’s 26 July. What’s your second impression?

]]> By: Pottsc http://www.rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2005/04/20/mac-mini/#comment-2963 Pottsc Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:18:27 +0000 http://www.rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2005/04/20/mac-mini/#comment-2963 Congrats on the Mini ! You might want to give Appleworks a try before opening up that office software you bought. Also, There is a free open source office application that is free. Very nice and fully loaded. Here's the info. http://www.neooffice.org/ NeoOffice/J is a full featured office productivity suite including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, vector drawing, database, and macro functionality. It can be used as a free alternative to Microsoft Office:Mac. You can exchange documents with Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org users, even on other platforms! Congrats on the Mini !
You might want to give Appleworks a try before opening up that office software you bought. Also, There is a free open source office application that is free. Very nice and fully loaded. Here’s the info.

http://www.neooffice.org/
NeoOffice/J is a full featured office productivity suite including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, vector drawing, database, and macro functionality. It can be used as a free alternative to Microsoft Office:Mac. You can exchange documents with Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org users, even on other platforms!

]]> By: Rachel http://www.rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2005/04/20/mac-mini/#comment-2951 Rachel Fri, 22 Apr 2005 16:39:01 +0000 http://www.rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2005/04/20/mac-mini/#comment-2951 James - it's the 1.42GHz one and Drew also got me 1Gig of RAM to put in it and did a nifty job with a palette knife to take the case off and install the memory. Nicholas - the ability to run Office is one of the reasons I went to Mac as opposed to just going to Linux at home. I write and so need to be able to open Word documents, I use OpenOffice at work and it's fine for most Word documents but once they have a lot of commets or use a ertain template it sometimes starts behaving a bit strangely. I didn't know about Fink - that looks splendid. James - it’s the 1.42GHz one and Drew also got me 1Gig of RAM to put in it and did a nifty job with a palette knife to take the case off and install the memory.

Nicholas - the ability to run Office is one of the reasons I went to Mac as opposed to just going to Linux at home. I write and so need to be able to open Word documents, I use OpenOffice at work and it’s fine for most Word documents but once they have a lot of commets or use a ertain template it sometimes starts behaving a bit strangely. I didn’t know about Fink - that looks splendid.

]]> By: Nicholas Shanks http://www.rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2005/04/20/mac-mini/#comment-2946 Nicholas Shanks Thu, 21 Apr 2005 18:36:11 +0000 http://www.rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2005/04/20/mac-mini/#comment-2946 And you know that apt, the debian package manager, is available on OS X too, don't you? <a href="http://fink.sf.net/" rel="nofollow">It's called Fink.</a> And you know that apt, the debian package manager, is available on OS X too, don’t you? It’s called Fink.

]]> By: Nicholas Shanks http://www.rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2005/04/20/mac-mini/#comment-2945 Nicholas Shanks Thu, 21 Apr 2005 17:33:40 +0000 http://www.rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2005/04/20/mac-mini/#comment-2945 As a recent Mac buyer, you should be able to get a free upgrade to Tiger when it comes out, which has an even better version of Mail. See http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/mail/ You can also get by without MS Office, but it's still nice to have, I agree. - Nicholas. As a recent Mac buyer, you should be able to get a free upgrade to Tiger when it comes out, which has an even better version of Mail. See http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/mail/

You can also get by without MS Office, but it’s still nice to have, I agree.

- Nicholas.

]]> By: James Stewart http://www.rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2005/04/20/mac-mini/#comment-2940 James Stewart Thu, 21 Apr 2005 01:41:43 +0000 http://www.rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2005/04/20/mac-mini/#comment-2940 What spec did you get? I'm planning to buy one as soon as they're shipping with Tiger, but haven't quite decided on which model to buy. What spec did you get? I’m planning to buy one as soon as they’re shipping with Tiger, but haven’t quite decided on which model to buy.

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