[DM-MUG] iWork and the Mac mini

[John Kisner]

Bailey,

Thanks for the informative updates.

What happened to the spreadsheet part of AppleWorks?  Did they not have 
time to add that to the mix, or do you think integration of tables & 
page layout (a la RagTime) is not the direction Apple's going with 
this?

Timing is everything.  Yesterday I bought a family pack of Nisus 
Express, since I've become so fed up with AppleWorks.  Last week I 
began using RagTime Solo for a personal layout project.  Wish I could 
have a do-over on Nisus, and maybe the time spent re-learning RagTime 
would have been better used with the new Apple software!

John Kisner

On Jan 11, 2005, at 12:37 PM, Bailey Ford wrote:

> Next up, iWork!
>
> This is an update to Appleworks, created from the ground up. 2 
> Applications: Keynote2 with new themes, animated text, presenter 
> display, interactive slide shows, and self-running kiosk style shows, 
> He shows some new themes. 'Cinema quality presentation for the rest of 
> us'. Support for charts and graphs. Flash and PDF output are added to 
> Appleworks, QT and Powerpoint output.
>
> The other app is Pages - a word processor. collums, text and par 
> styles, all the expected features. He is really pushing Apple 
> templates. Phil Shiller is going to do a demo. Pages starts up by 
> asking what template to start with (like keynote). The templates start 
> off with dummy text and graphics - so you don't just have the 
> formatting and a blank screen- there is already data everywhere. 
> Integrated with iPhoto to get images. Matching the image to the 
> template is totally automatic - scaling and rotating and alpha 
> transparencies are all done automatically to match the theme. There 
> are even guides like in Keynote. The themes have different types of 
> pages that match (again, like keynote). Table, image, and chart object 
> are supported. You can also alter the themed pages very easily. Looks 
> excellent, but the big feature that is needed (IMO) is word 
> compatibility. He very quickly goes over compatibility with 
> Appleworks, Word, and PDF.
>
> "why doesn't apple offer a stripped down mac that is affordable?"
> Today they introduce the Mac mini. Looks like a big iPod. Width of an 
> optical drive. Firewire, USB2, DVI, ethernet, modem, etc. Very very 
> very tiny. beautiful. BYODKM - bring your own display keyboard and 
> mouse. Comes with Panther and with iLife 05. Priced for switchers. 2 
> models $499 for 1.25 GHz, 256MB RAM, 40GB drive, combo. $599 for 1.42 
> GHz. and 80GB upgrades. Avail Jan 22!
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