Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 16th Apr 2009 20:19 UTC
Apple In a rare case of Apple frankness, the company has allowed a PR person to make a statement to BusinessWeek about the recent Microsoft "Laptop Hunters" ad campaign. Don't read to fast, or you'll miss it: "A PC is no bargain when it doesn't do what you want," Apple spokesman Bill Evans told BusinessWeek, "The one thing that both Apple and Microsoft can agree on is that everyone thinks the Mac is cool. With its great designs and advanced software, nothing matches it at any price." That's it. Just thought you'd like to know.
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RE: iLife iWork
by aliquis on Fri 17th Apr 2009 07:21 UTC in reply to "iLife iWork"
aliquis
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2005-07-23

Just out of curiosity, how much would it cost for a Windows user to buy software of equivalent functions to everything in the iLife and iWork suites? I'm not a mac user, so I don't know fully what's in either of them.
The applications are useless unless you use them, but anyway:


iLife:
iPhoto - Picasa, free.
iMovie - Moviemaker, free.
Garageband - No idea what alternatives exist, probably some free, there is some for Linux and Windows (?) which cost quite a bit less than Reason and such, like around 100 dollar.
iWeb - May exist free alternatives, it's not really good. Frontpage?

iWork:
Pages - I guess the best choice would be OpenOffice but not exactly similar, free.
Numbers - I guess the best choice would be OpenOffice but not exactly similar, free.
Keynote - I guess the best choice would be OpenOffice but not exactly similar, free.


Openoffice probably works just fine for most people but it's more of an office copy than an iwork copy. iPhoto is quite crappy, imovie is very simple, iweb is also very limited and outputs crap. Garageband is the only titel which is supposed to actually be quite good, but that only helps if you do music and want to use it.

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RE[2]: iLife iWork
by Mellin on Sun 19th Apr 2009 07:05 in reply to "RE: iLife iWork"
Mellin Member since:
2005-07-06

frontpage only saves in mshtml and doesn't get updated anymore since 2006
movie maker is garbage

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