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01.20.08Office 2008: First ThoughtsI have in no way given Office 2008 a thorough working over so do not take this post as a final conclusion, but after installing the new Mac version of Microsoft's beast and having a little poke around, I have a few first thoughts. Microsoft Office 2008 is a prime example of Microsoft taking the proven Mac way of doing things and trying to make it better. At this task, they have failed, and what results is a mess of Microsoft thinking on a Mac framework. The first thing that I noticed is the toolbar, which indeed mimics the standard Leopard toolbar, ...
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11.10.07An Apple a DayAfter a few weeks of talking about it, I took the plundge and bought a new MacBook Pro. This isn't my first Mac, but I have been using Windows machines only for a while. This means that the house is totally Mac now, with my better half a dedicated Mac user (iMac 20" currently). It is the top-end 15" model, 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, and 160GB HD. It screams, and so far I have very little to complain about with it. My only issues thus far: the screen doesn't open wide enough for how I sit it on my ...