Ibook Batteries and Office

[007]

If it's for Word and Powerpoint that you want MS Office (i.e. you don't care about Excel and Access), forget it and go for Apple's iWork, comprised of Pages (best word processor ever, bar none) and Keynote (very good Powerpoint substitute, although I haven't used it a lot). Both applications read and write MS Office files with very good compatibility.

With the Apple education discount, you can get iWork from about 40 pounds, and it's worth every penny.

Really?

Nice one. I needed them to be compatible you see. And it's definately better than the apple MS office?

[Paleface]

Valken: you don't *need* one. I don't have one, but mine's certainly on its way out after two years. It's just *technically*, they're only expected to have a peak lifespan for 12 months, after which they start to lose max charge.

[gIzzE]

My battery is 2 years old, I leave the laptop plugged in 24/7 and the battery still lasts 3 to 4 hours.

[007]

Got ahold of Iwork, it's pretty ace. Any tips or things I should look turn on or look out for?