apple mac book model mb881ll/a I am thinking of buying for my 12 year grandson-he loves macs. He does have to do alot of pwerpoint presentations for school-does mac do thia?
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Don't pay Microsoft, get Open Office for free. Your grandson will be able to do just about anything he would do using the Microsoft version. Go to "why.openoffice.org".
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i think i am going to go for it. i have a gateway which suddenly after 1 year is freezing, messaging me eveyday low space on recovery d and very slow. thanks for the input!
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18 months ago, we were an all PC/Microsoft family. We now have 3 MacBooks and an iMac and would never go back. Don't waste your money on the Toshiba. For only $350 more, your grandson will get a computer that will outlast anything made by IBM, Dell or Toshiba, and he will be grateful every time he uses the Mac. I know my 3 kids are emotionally attached to theirs.
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Iam still on the fence due to the price. Saw a nice looking toshiba for 629.00-any thought? He loves mac as opposed to microsoft. HHMM.
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You would have to buy Office for Mac to use Powerpoint. You can buy a student version of the software for around $100 which will include Word and Excel.
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If you are asking if MacBooks are more internet friendly they are. they will run all of the current versions of flash, netflix,etc.ibooks are older notebooks that will not do several web standards very well, like flash etc.we sell ibooks for people who are familiar with there performance and aware of there limitation.
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Hi - I bought this for my boyfriends Mac Book Pro. He puhased his Mac Book in spring 2012. It was the most current 15 in Mac book at the time. Not sure if his has retina display, but I cannot imagine the quality of the screen affecting anything else on the design (ie button locations).
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I love it. Bought this for my son and he has his mac book laptop in his. I think it's worth buying. hope this helps.
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I send the Mac with OSX Mavericks. Amazon does not let Sellers Update Specifications on All Amazon Listings. I cannot speak for Other Sellers. The Finest Macbooks -
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this mac was a request for a customer, I just bought for him ....I don t really know Sorry Man !
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this is a wonderful laptop. though it may not be the optimal time yet, but half a year after your precious daughter's graduation, the transtion should be pretty smooth by then, and dual-booting windows XP and OS X on mac book pro would be much more pleasant. at any rate, even now photoshop still runs well. not as fast as it could POTENTIALLY run a bit later, but still very good. it is always good to have the choice of running windows and os x on the same machine. (while doing so on a non-apple pc is illegal)
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Hi, David, We have six Macintosh laptops in our household, ranging from 2 500 MHz ice ibooks bought back in 2000 to a new Macbook and a new Macbook pro. All of them are still working really well, given their ages and what we've put them through. There have been some flaws, yes, but no more flaws than friends who have PC laptops have endured (and they're in worse shape than we are sometimes). We have gotten two lemons; my partner's Ti Powerbook had a manufacturing flaw that showed up causing the motherboard to short circuit, and my first Macbook had a literally warped case, which meant it cracked. However, those can happen to anyone and it was just bad luck as far as I'm concerned -- he bought his through the apple online store, I got mine in person at the apple store. Buy Applecare. ALWAYS. And never go to the Genius bar if you can avoid it -- it's named ironically. Applecare and the applecare 800 number are your best bet. The bigger test I think is the powerbooks and ibooks that are now 4 and 8 years old, respectively. They're all going strong. One's our file server, one's a music server for the house, one runs a linux test environment, and one's in my kitchen, serving as my recipe library and media etc center. They all get a lot of work, and other than all being restarted every sunday night at 8, they pretty much run continually. Of course they're out of battery, but that's to be expected. Batteries don't last forever. Good luck, and I hope this helped!
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I am using this macbook as I write. Still up and running, 5 years later. This macbook batch was good. I read yesterday that consumer electronics are trending to die within two years of purchase, and that the trend is on a slippery slope down. I am on here looking for another one of these just to have around. Gotta make sure you get the macbooks with intel processor. The world now just isn't a friendly place for the pre-intel macbooks anymore.
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I really don't know. I bought the Apple Macbook for my granddaughter who started college this fall. I don't know all about those games but if I had to guess I would say probably so. I can ask my granddaughter.
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I really don't know. I had a 13 inch Mac Book about that old. I made an appointment at the apple store close by and they helped me. Good Luck.
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I think so. I take a lot of pics of my 2 year old granddaughter and use iPhoto tools to improve them. The retina display is really sharp and is a big improvement over my >3 year old MacBookPro.
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I have upgrade both versions of the iBook and also the new MacBook. There is no comparison, the MacBook is the easiest Mac laptop ever for upgrading the hard drive. (The iBook being the worst!) You might need a Torx 8 (??) screwdriver, I can't remember now, but it was in my standard Mac toolkit. :-)
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I really don't know but if I had to guess I would say no. I've never used a macbook but if it is capable of sending out a Bluetooth signal to the speaker kind of like a phone is the the only way because age speaker won't send a single.
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I looked on the box and did not see anything related to Mac at all, I would suggest that you email them at www.individualsoftware.com/support and ask them. It is a great way to learn all these programs, this is not my first one and my grandchildren have improved their skills with this training.
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I send the Mac with OSX Mavericks. Amazon does not let Sellers Update Specifications on All Amazon Listings. I cannot speak for Other Sellers. The Finest Macbooks - http://www.amazon.com/shops/A38OB0VFIV6QC4/ref=aag_d_sh
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Thank you all for the replies. That really cleared most of my concern. Now I'm trying to decide between Macbook Air and Macbook Pro. I still prefer macbook air because of the weight (thanks for bringing up the heavy textbooks factor:). however if it turns out Windows software is necessary, i might be interested in a macbook that's easier to setup two os. From what I heard so far, macbook air would be a headache to do that because of the lack of DVD/CD rom. I still have a lot of time before making the final decision though. Thanks again for your inputs.