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Tarfumes.com - Apple iWork '08
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List Price: $79.00
Our Price: $68.99
Your Save: $ 10.01 ( 13% )
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Manufacturer: Apple
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Binding: DVD-ROM
Brand: Apple
EAN: 0885909140244
Feature: Apple's productivity suite for the Mac, iWork '08 includes three applications: Pages '08, Numbers '08, and Keynote '08
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Apple
Manufacturer: Apple
Model: MA790Z/A
Platform: Mac OS X
Publisher: Apple
Release Date: 2007-08-11
Studio: Apple
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Features
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Apple's productivity suite for the Mac, iWork '08 includes three applications: Pages '08, Numbers '08, and Keynote '08
Powerful word processing and page layout with 140 Apple-designed templates with Pages
Effortlessly create stunning presentations, complete with Apple-designed themes, cinema-quality animations, and voiceover narration with Keynote
Create compelling spreadsheets for everything from family budgets and event planning to invoices and complex financial reports with Numbers
Import and export compatibility with Microsoft Office
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Editorial Reviews:
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Pages '08 offers an intuitive way to create beautiful, media-rich documents using impressive features such as Writing and layout modes, Change tracking, Contextual Format Bar, Automatic list formatting, Graphics tools and templates. Pages '08 supports industry-standard formats to easily open documents from other word processing applications that were created on a Mac or a PC.
Amaze your audience with cinema-quality presentations using Keynote '08 and its new features Text effects & transitions, Action Builds, Instant Alpha, Voice-over Recording, Smart Builds and Apple-designed Themes.
Numbers '08 does everything from setting up your family budget to completing a lab report using Intelligent Tables, Interactive Print View, Flexible Canvas, Import & Export Excel, Charts, Images, Text Labels and Customizable Templates. New Templates - Use more than 80 new templates Keynotes '08 - Text effects & transitions - Captivate viewers with elegant transitions Action Builds - Move objects along a path Instant Alpha - Change backgrounds with simple click & drag Smart Builds - Add photos with sophisticated animations Apple-designed Themes - 9 themes for creating a professional presentation Numbers '08 - Intelligent Tables - Create multiple resizable tables Interactive Print View - Scale and arrange documents Flexible Canvas - Move objects wherever you like with comments, photos and graphics Import & Export Excel - Share spreadsheets with Microsoft Office Charts, Images, Text Labels - Add 2D & 3D charts, photos or a map Customizable Templates - For Home, School and Business System Requirements - Macintosh computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5 or PowerPC G4 (500MHz or faster) processor, 512MB RAM, 32MB video memory, Mac OS X Version 10.4.10 or later, QuickTime 7.2 or later, iLife '08 recommended, 1GB free space and DVD drive required for installation
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent Alternative to Word
Comment: I've been a long time user of Word on my Mac and when I upgraded my laptop I decided to give iWork a try.
I need basic word processing, spreadsheet, and PowerPoint capabilities. iWork works beautifully. I especially like Keynote as a substitute for PowerPoint. iWork provides many useful templates in Keynote, Pages and Numbers. With iWork I can also open all the Office documents friends send me via e-mail.
So far I've experienced no problems or glitches with iWork unlike the many I encountered with Word on a Mac. Apple's backup to iWork is also much better than Microsoft's with Word.
Nice product!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Solid Suite for the Non-Professional
Comment: This is a great suite of programs for those of us who don't necessarily need the full power of the Microsoft Office suite. It will be able to do nearly all of what you want it to do in a non-professional environment (read home or possibly small business) for a whole lot less money than MS Office will cost.
That's where this suite shines. For $79 or less ($69 currently on Amazon) you get 80% of the MS Office functionality plus famous Apple-brand style. It's infinitely better than the hack-job "NeoOffice" for Mac which is the free OpenOffice-based office suite that is nearly unusable due to a bad translation.
Pros:
-Pages is a fine little word processor for writing virtually anything you can think of. It's simple to use and flows well with the rest of the "Mac experience." If you just want to sit down and type a letter or a book, it's hard to beat. This is the Apple equivalent to Microsoft Word
-Numbers is a usable spreadsheat program that will do some basic number crunching and data manipulation. It's competent and works like most other Apple programs. This is the Apple equivalent to Microsoft Excel
-Keynote is the best application of the suite. It is a powerful presentation design program that is not only on par with, but superior to Microsoft Powerpoint, which it is aimed at. If you want an idea of what it can do, just watch any of Steve Job's keynote addresses to see a good presentation in action. He uses Keynote, too.
Cons:
-Generally speaking, if you are familiar with MS Office programs (as I am), you'll have a bear of a time migrating over to iWork. Apple has its own version of what is logical in the interface, and though I can't say if it's better or worse, it's definitely different and hard to navigate for an MS Office veteran. If you're new to such programs, though, it's probably more intuitive.
-Pages is a little light on features and flexibility. This offers a simpler user interface, but also means you lose a lot of power that the professional grade MS Word offers. It also has a lot of trouble importing anything but the most simplistic Word documents and doesn't appear to be compatible with Office 2008 for Mac yet (I'm not sure about Office 2007 for Windows, though).
-Numbers is the weakest program in the suite. It's not really usable in a standard office practice as it lacks so many features and capabilities that have been in Excel for generations. It's more-or-less a sort of placeholder until Apple decides it really wants to be in the Enterprise market. Few home users will bother learning to use a spreadsheet program of any type unless they have to. This is more of an afterthought.
-Keynote is the jewel of the set. It's only real weakness is that it will ruin you on Microsoft Powerpoint if you ever have to go back or have to export your presentation into Powerpoit format. That's the Achilles' Heel of Keynote is the lack of widespread use anywhere. Industry doesn't use it. Education doesn't use it. Heck, even hotels and conference rooms don't use it. You have to bring your own Mac if you really want to use it.
Overall, this is a great suite for the money, but can't really compete with its entrenched and much more mature Microsoft counterparts (except for Keynote). This is a must-have if you use your Mac for anything productive, especially if your budget is a bit tight.
Customer Rating:
Summary: i[t] works
Comment: this product is great. it does what it needs to. there are many features that aren't apparent until you dig in and explore. one setback is that, when using graphs, you are very limited in your intervals and labeling the graphs. it is recommended that, if you need to produce graphs of any quality, create your graphs in another program and import them into keynote or pages...
Customer Rating:
Summary: Hits the mark but misses in a couple of areas
Comment: First I have to say I'm a huge Apple fan. They slowly won me over from the PC side now I find PCs barely usable. That being said this is a very intuitive and usable productivity suite. It integrates wonderfully into OS X. That being said it does not support open document format yet (odt) or any of the open office formats.
Additionally with Open Office for Mac being as good or better than MS Office and it's free. It makes it hard for me to justify paying any money for office productivity suite.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Very disappointing! Still need office
Comment: Pages is not really a word processor at all. It is, at best, a mediocre page layout program. The spell-checking and grammar-checking are basically useless. In my mind, spelling and grammar are as fundamental to word processing as are cut and paste. Apple has been on a real role lately that I had really high hopes for iwork. It doesn't take long to find out this product is just plain junk. I'm sorry I bought it and will go back to office.
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