Re: Successful Test

[adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sandwich Maker)]

" From: farna@xxxxxxx
" 
" And a good one Tim! Most of the time I wouldn't recommend a Mac on the
" basis that software is hard to come by and more expensive -- kind of
" the AMC of computers even though Macs are still made. But IIRC it comes
" with basic word processing (kind of like Wordpad w/Windows) and a
" browser, so for replacing WebTV with something a little more flexibile
" it would be great. Something like MS Works (the Apple version, of
" course!) would make it perfect for basic computer use. Does it ship
" with something like that? Maybe I'll have to look. The newish Mac Mini
" might be the ticket! 

it does indeed come with an msworks-like suite called -- appleworks...
current ver is 6.2.9, so it's been around enough to have the features
in and the bugs out.  both imacs i know of shipped with it, and
updates are free.  and all the usual suspects like netscape / mozilla
/ firefox, opera, acroread, realplayer, even wmp, have mac versions.

imho unless you're talking about something unusual you won't need to
buy any software for it.  you want to generate pdf files?  the printer
does it, which sounds odd until you learn that pdf and postscript both
came from adobe and are very similar.

you can see what the mac environment looks like at
http://www.apple.com/macosx/overview/
if you're curious.
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