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T'other half has retired but plans to do contract and consultancy stuff so needs a new laptop as the work one's gone back.
Pretty well anything will cope as it's mostly spread sheet and WP.

A bit of guidance though as she's looking at Apple as mostly they're quite trim and she's used to her iPhone.

How easy is it though to run Microsoft Office, which is required, on an Apple.

Work machine was a Microsoft Surface. Can't remember the model but it won't have been all bells and whistles.

Snaps

Office 365 can be web based which would work, or you can buy it to install for Mac, which i would assume would be the same as running it on windows.

seems overkill for office to me, but that's another argument ;)

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This item was edited on Tuesday, 19th July 2022, 18:27

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admars says...
"seems overkill for office to me, but that's another argument ;)"
Yeh I know but when do we buy the bare minimum ourselves.

Thanks


Snaps

Buy 2 laptops instead of a MAC.. 😂
Unless there's an actual reason to switch to a MAC I'm not sure of the logic to switch to basically surf and run Office. Similarly, using an iPhone is not at all like using MacOS.
Regarding Office though, it runs perfectly well on MACs.

Ste

Thanks to both of you.
I'd prefer it wasn't a Mac myself for the inevitable 'Why won't/does/doesn't it' questions.
Any suggestions for fairly lightweight slimline Lappys gratefully received.

Snaps

Nothing specific but I can recommend - but generally, something with an i5 processor, 10th or later Gen (like i5-10...), 8GB RAM and not be too bothered about storage space as long as it's SSD - 500GB is easily enough, don't be tempted by 1TB etc...

Ste

Dell XPS is the Dell equivalent, i.e. the design spec was "make a windows laptop which looks like a mac" ;)

has she played with one in an Apple shop? I know someone who bought one recently, he's IT literate but having a nightmare doing things he can easily do on a windows pc, I'm sure someone who has used a mac for years would moan about windows.

but also another friend loves her iPad, loves her iPhone, her husband recently bought a mac, she said she hates it, it's just not intuitive after years of windows despite what the zealots say.

My experience of mac is v limited, i remember at uni using one for the first time, walking up to the helpdesk,
"how do i eject my floppy disk?"
"you drag the floppy disk onto the rubbish bin"

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I guess she needs Office and doesn't want to use the included Apple offerings?

MacOS does integrate nicely with your iPhone. I often take calls on it through my Macbook if I'm using that. Copying and pasting between devices is super nice too.

The OS and the hardware are developed in harmony which makes things feel a lot more consistent. And the new M1s are so fast.

I mostly use Macbooks for work and home, apart from gaming on Windows 11 and some other bits on Windows 10. Some things MacOS does better, other things Windows does better.


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