[CTS] Re: iMac group / help
- From: PEGGYG827@xxxxxxx
- To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 13:17:00 EST
Well I am thinking you are using Macs from a different planet than I am.
I'm running a G4 Mac OS X Server with 256 MB RAM...never have I found it to
be sluggish...not even when it's doing more than just being a server. Just mho,
but if it can run 20 macs on a network, plus let me do work on it....then 256
MB won't be too slow for Grandma.
IE works flawlessly for me and my students. It has to, since my students are
mentally handicapped, and we try to keep things as simple and easy to use as
possible. Are others better? Sure, but I didn't think we were looking for the
cadillac of browsers, just something that would wok for someone with not a
lot of computer experience.
Appleworks can change its file format to Office, so that saved files can be
read by anything Microsoft. It can also open any MS Office doc.
My reasoning behind all this is that if Grandma is anything like my mother,
simple = good. My suggestions have all been with keeping it simple, easy to
understand, and with a minimum of frustration.
In a message dated 12/16/2005 12:56:12 PM Eastern Standard Time,
ross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
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.
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