So, if you spec out a pc laptop with as equivalent as possible parts as an apple, they typically run about the same price... sometimes the mac is even cheaper! For example, I just turned away from this post to spec out a dell laptop, a 13.3" screen model, for comparison to the macbook. With similar features to the macbook it comes out at right around $1000 bucks (a little under actually). Now the apple, with the same specs is more expensive... But if you factor in the cost of software that comes with the apple, they are neck to neck. You could consider buying the cheapest macbook, which albeit has a slower processor, but provides a much better graphics card. The GC in the dell is the same model as in the old macbook air, the intel x3100. A decent card, but nothing compared to the nvidia 9400.
So whats the point? Well the point is I think apple should give you iwork for free. You are already getting a great computer at a great price. Why not just finish the job and do the one thing that PCs never do... come with good word processing software, out of the box.
Pages is a great program, it is my word processor of choice! I hardly ever use word (twice a year for writing student evals)... Why doesn't apple produce pageslite? Something like wordpad (not notepad, wordpad, it is in accessories for all you pc users who didn't know it was there) but better. Most people don't need much from their word processor.
The other stuff, that's extra, presentation software, spreadsheet software, a lot of people don't use it. Make people pay for that. Lots of people use word processing!
Of course this is all really moot. Apple should really put out a web based verision of iwork and skip the computer altogether. Google docs, except by apple, and therefore, nicer looking and a little bit better functioning.
This was rambling. Sorry. But I'm in class and needed something else to pay attention to.
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