Article Accelerator wrote:
[quote=kap]My professors requires their students to have a PC for MS Office Suite school assignments.

1. a professor ass-hat who shouldn't be a professor.
   
2. MonkeyBoy Bawlmer impersonating a professor!
   
3. a professor getting serious M$ kickbacks {does he/she drive a Porsche?}.
   
   (tu) (tu) (tu) (tu) http://www.libreoffice.org/
   
   (tu) (tu) http://www.openoffice.org/
   
   

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   Re: PC desktop system: Good, Bad or Ugly? - davester - 06-07-2012
   
   

   kap wrote: I LIKE Macs aweright. My professors requires their students to have a PC for MS Office Suite school assignments.

   
   Note that "PC" stands for "personal computer". Does your professor require a Windows machine? If so, why? MS Office has identical file types on mac and windows so there is no way he/she would even be able to tell what type of computer you were using.
   
   

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   Re: PC desktop system: Good, Bad or Ugly? - kap - 06-07-2012
   
   

   davester wrote:
   [quote=kap]I LIKE Macs aweright. My professors requires their students to have a PC for MS Office Suite school assignments.

   
   Note that "PC" stands for "personal computer". Does your professor require a Windows machine? If so, why? MS Office has identical file types on mac and windows so there is no way he/she would even be able to tell what type of computer you were using.
   Yes, they both specifically request Windows boxes for Excel and Access. Otherwise, I'd be using Ubuntu
   
   

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   Re: PC desktop system: Good, Bad or Ugly? - M A V I C - 06-07-2012
   
   State funded school? Tell them they're not allowed to force you to pick a specific religion. If they want to belong to the church of Microsoft, that's their choice but they can't force you to be part of it.
   
   

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   Re: PC desktop system: Good, Bad or Ugly? - JoeH - 06-08-2012
   
   

   kap wrote:
   [quote=davester]
   [quote=kap]I LIKE Macs aweright. My professors requires their students to have a PC for MS Office Suite school assignments.

   
   Note that "PC" stands for "personal computer". Does your professor require a Windows machine? If so, why? MS Office has identical file types on mac and windows so there is no way he/she would even be able to tell what type of computer you were using.
   Yes, they both specifically request Windows boxes for Excel and Access. Otherwise, I'd be using Ubuntu
   You should have mentioned Access earlier. If that is required, then so is Windows. Access is not available in the Mac version of Office.
   
   

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   Re: PC desktop system: Good, Bad or Ugly? - silvarios - 06-08-2012
   
   

   JoeH wrote: You should have mentioned Access earlier. If that is required, then so is Windows. Access is not available in the Mac version of Office.

   
   That's a bit unfair. The OP already mentioned Windows as a requirement. We could have just taken his word.
   
   

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   Re: PC desktop system: Good, Bad or Ugly? - JoeH - 06-08-2012
   
   

   silvarios wrote:
   [quote=JoeH]You should have mentioned Access earlier. If that is required, then so is Windows. Access is not available in the Mac version of Office.

   
   That's a bit unfair. The OP already mentioned Windows as a requirement. We could have just taken his word.
   It would have forestalled all the suggestions to use the Mac version of Office. All of the suggestions based on identical filetypes and compatibility assumed only needing the usual Office components. Most don't need Access, so some of the cause for that excursion is on kap.
   
   

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