I’ll share important information you may find necessary as well. I used those two cities in order to get a cross-country price scenario. Here’s a rundown of some of the basic costs of shipping with each of the four biggest shipping companies.įor each scenario, I calculated the shipping of a 2-pound box from Minneapolis to Phoenix. You’ll find that prices will vary depending on which shipping company you use.

Flat Rate Shipping Can Be Cost Effective.

Keynote is absolutely brilliant, blowing Powerpoint completely away for creating beautiful Presentations.

Pages, the “Word Processing” part of iWork actually makes a pretty acceptable Desktop Publishing program and is much easier to use than Word in my opinion, but Numbers is frankly a poor “Spreadsheet” substitute for Excel. However if you need to open or create the occasional Work, Excel or Powerpoint compatible file it does a decent job. If you need complete Mac/Windows transparency, don’t make the mistake of buying iWork. iWork lets you import and export Word, Excel and Powerpoint files and does a pretty good job. The last option is to buy Apple’s iWork software instead. If you’ve suffered using Entourage with Exchange in the past you’ll absolutely love it. Outlook 2011 for Mac is really really good.

Again there are single or multiple licence versions available starting from around £165. If you intend to use Office for Mac for your business, or need Outlook to connect to a Microsoft Exchange Server, you’ll need to buy Microsoft Office Home and Business Edition. Note that this version does not include Outlook, so if you need to connect to a Microsoft Exchange Server for email/contacts/calendar you need to buy a different licence. You can buy it with licences for one or three computers and it’ll cost around £70-85. The short answer is if you’re a student or using it for non-business purposes get Microsoft Office Home and Student Edition. One of the questions I get asked a lot is “what’s the cheapest way to get Microsoft Office for Mac?” Whether you’re a Windows Switcher, a student or home user, chances are that at some point you’ll have to work on a Microsoft Word, Excel or Powerpoint document, and to do this you need Office for Mac (or iWork).

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