[Quiet Man Cometh]

Originally Posted by Coda

You've been told wrong, Quiet. Desktop publishing has always been one of Mac's strong suits. The built-in TextEdit is comparable to WordPad but slightly nicer. Microsoft Word exists over here if that's what you're accustomed to, and Apple's iWork has Pages, which is slightly better than Word for desktop publishing. Neither Word nor Pages are really appropriate for REAL desktop publishing and you'd need to get some professional software if you intend to do professional publishing, but if what you're looking for is a word processor that's easy to come by.

I've heard that before too. It gets so confusing! So far though, among classmates and instructors, the pro-PC's outweigh the pro-Macs.

I plan on getting better software but right now I can't afford it (looking mostly at Adobe)so I'm going to experiment with what I can get in the meantime. I go with my brother, who has both computers and uses whichever one is better for what he needs to do and for my purposes (all my purposes) he recommends a PC.