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I have a few questions, I've seen the cost of office for the mac at £450 and this is ridiculous last time I checked there was an offer of £125 with a new mac. Is there anyway of getting it cheaper?
I doubt that there is, but it is a great piece of software, much nicer to use than the pc version, but the price is just a joke. I have it, and it is very good. If your just gonna use word dics, TextEdit will edit them, which is bundled with the machine
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Is there a free firewall /antivirus scanner for the mac as I'm used to not paying for these? Also does the PB come with some cd writing software as standard.
The Firewall built into Os X is very good, and as Coco said, you wont be affected by many viruses. OS X has burning built into it, so you can bun files and copy cds or cd images. Also, iTunes has burning in it for music cds. For 3rd party software, thebest you will find is Toast, Which does video as well as music, data, and direct cd copying
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I use dreamweaver MX on my PC but would need a mac copy but they are asking for £450 are there any other cheaper alternatives for the mac?
Erm, the only other i can think off the top of my head is Adobe GoLive, but thats only about £50 cheaper. If you just wanna do html then a program like BBEdit is good. As for FTP, the one i use is fetch, whichi s pretty good
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One option is to get Virtual PC 6.0 and just my pc versions is this possible?
Virtual PC is good, but quite slow. It might be worth investigating Unix versions that work with fink
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I would want wireless networking so is the extreme card a good option? I would want to use a netgear wireless router?
The airport cards are great, good value and work excellently
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Have the battery problems been sorted in the latest versions of OSX?
I havent experienced any battery problems, it lasts about 3.5 hours or so just surfing.
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lastly does the 12 pb still suffer from the keyboard being imprinted on the screen problem of the earlier models?
I havent had any problems, but if im gonna put it in a case, then i put the little foam sheet inbetween that it shipped with.
Oh, and Uplink is out now for macintosh :p