PC desktop system: Good, Bad or Ugly?

[Panopticon]

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

No, they don't.

Your professors think that their students require Windows PCs for MS Office Suite school assignments. I'm pretty sure they're wrong but if they're correct, just do what M A V I C or zero suggested.
:agree:

...requires...have a PC for MS Office...
pure BS! Find me a professor who will put that in writing & I'll show you:

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/

[davester]

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.

[kap]

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

[M A V I C]

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.

[JoeH]

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.

[silvarios]

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.

[JoeH]

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.