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What do you use as your mail client and office suite in OSX, and why?

Do you use the included Mail app, or maybe some other program?

I'm thinking of using iWork for my office suite, and is the Mail app the best option...? Are there any other options, seeing as there is no Outlook...?
 
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Mail.app + iWork... works just fine for 5 accounts. Keynote is worth it's weight in gold.
 
Well, Microsoft has an equivalent of Outlook for Mac, called Entourage. It's about as bad and as frustrating to use as Outlook is. It completely ignores the Mac conventions, like for example, Cmd+arrow usually goes to the beginning or end of a line, but not in Entourage. The only reason I have my work account configured with it is so that I can accept meeting invites.

For personal mail I use Mail.app. I like it, it does what I need, it doesn't get in my way, it doesn't make my life miserable. For work mail I generally use Thunderbird, in part because I like to keep personal and work mail separate (otherwise Mac Mail would be fine) and in part because of the slightly better control over things like threads and mailing lists that Thunderbird provides, since I use that a lot in my work mail.

Office suite? I don't use that. Give me a browser and a terminal, and I'm good. I have iWork for the odd letter, and OpenOffice, just because it's free and I have loads of OOo documents from years gone past.
 
Mail's search functionality far out ways Entourage. I will often try search for a mail in Entourage and it will come back with no returns, even though I know a mail exists with the keywords I used, so I most of the time have to search for it manually. Also Mail, just seems to run smoother.

If I have to use the Office suite I do, but I even prefer TextEdit over Word (But I don't need to do anything fancy when doing text documents).

I have heard only good things about Keynote and the iWork package. Apparently thre are thing you can do in Keynote, that are just not possible in Powerpoint.
 
soundbase said:
I have heard only good things about Keynote and the iWork package. Apparently thre are thing you can do in Keynote, that are just not possible in Powerpoint.
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Keynote is in a different league to Powerpoint, there really is no comparison. I use Keynote for all my presentations and people always want to know how I got Powerpoint to look like that ;)
 
It looks a lot better than Powerpoint. Nicer templates, better graphics handling and good transitions.
 
Mail.app, Ical, Address Book - link to Exchange 2k3 via Davmail (davmail.sourceforge.net). Awesome combo - all the goodness of Mac software playing very nicely with the corporate burden of Exchange.
 
Pooky said:
I'm thinking of using iWork for my office suite, and is the Mail app the best option...? Are there any other options, seeing as there is no Outlook...?
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Pooky, grab yourself a copy of Ubuntu 10.04 and install it on your Mac.

It also has OpenOffice and comes standard with Evolution, the best clone of Outlook I have ever worked with.

Sorted. :p

*If you want the real deal, grab yourself a R5000 notebook from Incredible Corruption and put Office 2010 on it.
 
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kingrob said:
Pooky, grab yourself a copy of Ubuntu 10.04 and install it on your Mac.

It also has OpenOffice and comes standard with Evolution, the best clone of Outlook I have ever worked with.

Sorted. :p

*If you want the real deal, grab yourself a R5000 notebook from Incredible Corruption and put Office 2010 on it.
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Yeah, just make sure you add another R5,000 for the office 2010!

When did office become like winamp anyway? Same 2001 functionality with a 2007 "ribbon" skin slapped on.

There is a native mac version of Open Office and the Neo-Office port as well, if you want the pain.

iWork is real value for money at R800 for one and R1,000 for 5 licenses.
 
BobJones said:
Yeah, just make sure you add another R5,000 for the office 2010!

When did office become like winamp anyway? Same 2001 functionality with a 2007 "ribbon" skin slapped on.

There is a native mac version of Open Office and the Neo-Office port as well, if you want the pain.

iWork is real value for money at R800 for one and R1,000 for 5 licenses.
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Well....HELLO! You most probably paid R22000 for a Macbook Pro, that should have costed you R12000. Now who is REALLY throwing away money here?
 
kingrob said:
Well....HELLO! You most probably paid R22000 for a Macbook Pro, that should have costed you R12000. Now who is REALLY throwing away money here?
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Well you pay for an excellent laptop and the privilege of running OS X. Well worth it for some people. Oh, and iWork is superior to Openoffice.
 
kingrob said:
Well....HELLO! You most probably paid R22000 for a Macbook Pro, that should have costed you R12000. Now who is REALLY throwing away money here?
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That's like saying someone paid 300k for a BMW when they should have bought a 150k Corolla that's just as fast.
 
koffiejunkie said:
That's like saying someone paid 300k for a BMW when they should have bought a 150k Corolla that's just as fast.
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Using a Toyota Corolla as comparison is not fair. We all know a white Toyota Corolla is the most boring car on the road. :p
 
koffiejunkie said:
It's entirely fair. A MacBook Pro is not a chealy built but high-spec laptop.
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Um.....I dont see a blu-ray drive or USB 3.0 in any MacBook Pro specs, so calling it "high-spec" is incorrect. Rather mainstream now.
 
kingrob said:
Um.....I dont see a blu-ray drive or USB 3.0 in any MacBook Pro specs, so calling it "high-spec" is incorrect. Rather mainstream now.
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I didn't say that. Read my comments again (with emphasis, for your benefit):

koffiejunkie said:
It's entirely fair. A MacBook Pro is not a chealy built but high-spec laptop.
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I'm referring to the hgih-end pastic dells and the like that are screaming fast but literally fall apart after a few years of light use.

Anyway, USB3 doesn't make something high-spec. I have not seen any evidence that in real world performance it has anything over FW800, which the MBP has.
 
kingrob said:
Well....HELLO! You most probably paid R22000 for a Macbook Pro, that should have costed you R12000. Now who is REALLY throwing away money here?
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Yeah... right. I'd like to see you walk out of Incredible Corruption with any Core i7 laptop PC that costs less than the 15" MBP - and has vaguely equivalent specs... go ahead try a Viao, HP or Dell and see if you can find one.
 
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