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When you buy it, does it have software like iwork, pages or powerpoint, or those program you woud need for school? Or do I have to purchase them? What does a Macbook pro have? What should I expect to pay, aside from the computer itself? Any additional fees? Thank you
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It is NOT AN APPLE THING. Geeze, these Mac-haters are annoying. No brand of computer includes free Microsoft Office, unless it is some sort of "starter" edition, and even then, I guarantee Dell paid Microsoft for that, so Dell tacks something onto the price to make up for it.
Apple does not include any office software other than TextEdit that can write simple essays or open Word documents (both .DOC and .DOCX).
There was a lot of piracy among shops selling PC in the past (some still going on). The shop staff would install MS Office on a PC and never include the DVD. If the software had a problem later, you had to drag the PC back to the shop for a reinstall.
For your Mac, you have several options....
-- You can open and edit .DOC files in TextEdit. You can also create reasonably good .DOC files with TextEdit. It lacks some of the more exacting formatting options found in the other choices below.
-- MS Office 2011 (for OS 10.5.8 or later). About US$150.
-- Apple's Pages that is like Word, and Keynote that is like PowerPoint. Each US$19.99, click the App Store on the Dock.
-- NeoOffice, newest version US$10, last year's version free. Some people use OpenOffice or LibreOffice, but they are lesser cousins to NeoOffice.
-- GoogleDocs or other online office editors.
{NeoOffice is the direct Mac development of OpenOffice and LibreOffice, and thus has a better interface, smaller size, and better highlighting appearance. Most people learn about OpenOffice from PC use, but they don't know there is a better free version for OS X.}
MS Office 2011 can edit and save any office document. Apple's Pages / Keynote / Numbers (sold separately) can edit any .DOC / .PPT / .XLS document, and export as .DOC / .PPT / .XLS document, but can only view .DOCX / .PPTX / .XLSX documents and edit / export them as .DOC / .PPT / .XLS. NeoOffice can edit and export any Word document, but has the same limits as Keynote for PowerPoint documents.
Pages is similar in use to Word, except not as many oddities and hidden defaults that are hard to change. Keynote is similar to PowerPoint, except with much better transitions. Keynote has two limitations: it cannot apply a video to more than one slide, and it cannot apply an audio file (music) to more than one slide (except as background for the whole presentation). That's why I have both iWork and MS Office.
It is NOT AN APPLE THING. Geeze, these Mac-haters are annoying. No brand of computer includes free Microsoft Office, unless it is some sort of "starter" edition, and even then, I guarantee Dell paid Microsoft for that, so Dell tacks something onto the price to make up for it.
Apple does not include any office software other than TextEdit that can write simple essays or open Word documents (both .DOC and .DOCX).
There was a lot of piracy among shops selling PC in the past (some still going on). The shop staff would install MS Office on a PC and never include the DVD. If the software had a problem later, you had to drag the PC back to the shop for a reinstall.
For your Mac, you have several options....
-- You can open and edit .DOC files in TextEdit. You can also create reasonably good .DOC files with TextEdit. It lacks some of the more exacting formatting options found in the other choices below.
-- MS Office 2011 (for OS 10.5.8 or later). About US$150.
-- Apple's Pages that is like Word, and Keynote that is like PowerPoint. Each US$19.99, click the App Store on the Dock.
-- NeoOffice, newest version US$10, last year's version free. Some people use OpenOffice or LibreOffice, but they are lesser cousins to NeoOffice.
-- GoogleDocs or other online office editors.
{NeoOffice is the direct Mac development of OpenOffice and LibreOffice, and thus has a better interface, smaller size, and better highlighting appearance. Most people learn about OpenOffice from PC use, but they don't know there is a better free version for OS X.}
MS Office 2011 can edit and save any office document. Apple's Pages / Keynote / Numbers (sold separately) can edit any .DOC / .PPT / .XLS document, and export as .DOC / .PPT / .XLS document, but can only view .DOCX / .PPTX / .XLSX documents and edit / export them as .DOC / .PPT / .XLS. NeoOffice can edit and export any Word document, but has the same limits as Keynote for PowerPoint documents.
Pages is similar in use to Word, except not as many oddities and hidden defaults that are hard to change. Keynote is similar to PowerPoint, except with much better transitions. Keynote has two limitations: it cannot apply a video to more than one slide, and it cannot apply an audio file (music) to more than one slide (except as background for the whole presentation). That's why I have both iWork and MS Office.
Why can't I install my canon legria fs306 camera's PIXELA disks onto my MAC?
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I just bought a new canon legria fs306 and read/followed all the instructions in the manual but still I failed installing the PIXELA disks. I have a Macbook OS X 10.5.8. Did I miss something?
Thank you for your help.
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Because Macs don't need the Pixela software - other operating systems don't either. There is no software included in the box with any consumer camcorder that is actually useful.
When you connect the FS306 to your Mac with a USB cable and the camcorder is in Play or PC mode, the memory will mount to the computer.
You have two ways to go - since you did not tell us which Mac... The preferred method starts by first downloading and installing MPEG StreamClip
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/mpegstreamclip.html
or similar transcoder.
Copy the video files from the camcorder to the computer;
Launch the transcoder (in this case, MPEG StreamClip);
Convert - transcode the copied files to something iMovie can deal with - like MP4 or DV or MOV files;
Quit the transcoder;
Launch iMovie;
Drag the converted video files to the sequence window... edit...
Because Macs don't need the Pixela software - other operating systems don't either. There is no software included in the box with any consumer camcorder that is actually useful.
When you connect the FS306 to your Mac with a USB cable and the camcorder is in Play or PC mode, the memory will mount to the computer.
You have two ways to go - since you did not tell us which Mac... The preferred method starts by first downloading and installing MPEG StreamClip
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/mpegstreamclip.html
or similar transcoder.
Copy the video files from the camcorder to the computer;
Launch the transcoder (in this case, MPEG StreamClip);
Convert - transcode the copied files to something iMovie can deal with - like MP4 or DV or MOV files;
Quit the transcoder;
Launch iMovie;
Drag the converted video files to the sequence window... edit...
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