Very true, but IE is *HORRIBLE* on Mac. Not horrible like the
security issues in Windows, it's flat-out bad. Mozilla (used to be?
is?) built for OS9, probably not Firefox. Could grab Opera as well.
But, depending on what she would use it for, it's probably sufficient.
I'd just shove 10 on there if it were mine; she can still run the old
software through Classic and still run anything new. I'd go for
512mb...OS X is fairly sluggish with less than 384.
AppleWorks isn't that great, it's ClarisWorks (according to
Peggy...can we trust her? ;) ) so it's obviously an attempt at an
all-in-one solution for little money. Those tend to not be the
best. Again, for what she's doing, it might be perfect. I haven't
played with it much (used it on an OS9 box and installed 6.something
on here when I first go this) so I don't know how well it handles MS
Office formats, but I doubt there'd be many (if any at all) problems.
Microsoft Office on Mac isn't all that great. I keep it installed
for files that I can't open in AbiWord (my processor of choice, but
it's just a word processor, nothing else...and I've run into a few
bugs in it, though I was running 2.2 when 2.4.1 is current) and for
Excel and PowerPoint.
There is a native OS X port of OpenOffice (J/Office I believe it's
called), but it's the worst of all options out there from my
experience. It's slower than OOo is on anything else I've used it
on. I highly recommend anything instead of it.
On Dec 16, 2005, at 10:19 AM, PEGGYG827@xxxxxxx wrote:
IE 5 for Mac works on 9.2, and there are no security issues with it. I run IE 5 in a 20 mac lab, and a 12 mac lab. They do what I, and my students need them to do.
In a message dated 12/16/2005 11:10:30 AM Eastern Standard Time, ECVogel@xxxxxxxxx writes:
She has never touched a MAc. I also forgot that no new web broswer that is modern will run on 9.x
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