Mac Software

Enough of the Mac PC Comparison, some info on Mac software/hardware would be interesting for a change.

On my PC, Killer Apps are,

1. ** Outlook **
2. Microsoft Office
3. Kaspersky Net security 2009
4. Visual Studio Enterprise
5. Windows Live Messenger
6. PowerDVD
7. Windows Media Player
8. DVD Decrypter/DVD Fab
9. Nero 6 Ultra
10. Hornresp
11. FarCry/NFS
12.Sisoft Sandra/CPUZ


So, if I were to hack OSX onto my PC hardware, what do I do for the above?

PS:I would want Microsoft Office, and no substitute.

yep you can get office for mac. although all the mac substitutes are just as good. but i understand why you'd want office. 

never heard of it - is it freeware? Ive never liked the idea of using windows along side osx, so i have a partitioned hd and use bootcamp. 

Oh dear Saul, you've done it now. I fear the pink handbag will swinging soon.

But ... you can't knock the software that comes with OSX can you? - means that your new computer will work out of the box and not with annoying 30 day trial packages. The only preference I have for Mac and PC software packages is for specific applications; for example, I prefer Canvas on the Mac to Illustrator on the PC (but often which one I use depends on which computer I'm sitting in front of at the time). Music software is a different thing: Mac for music because of the hardware and because that's what I've always used (most of us went from the Atari to Cubase on the Mac then to DP/ProTools and some Logic before PCs were a viable option). I still use a dedicated Mac running OS9 with a wave editing program that is the only one that can do SCSI transfers to vintage samplers (8/12 bit etc). This old package from 1993 is beyond value to me.

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illuminate wrote: Most of the Mac users I know have passionately hate Microsoft (for no real reason) so use OpenOffice [freeware] or are deliberately obtuse and use something Mac specific.

Being a UNIX Developer, I grew outof Micro$oft hate ages ago. Especially as Word, Outlook,Excel do a nice job of generating Invoices/Timesheets and emailing them to agents.

illuminate wrote: Norton do Internet Security for Macs.

I can personally say installing the above is equivalent to knowingly installing worms/viruses on your PC.

So what's the Top Media player/DVD Burning tool for OSX?

levyte357 wrote: Enough of the Mac PC Comparison, some info on Mac software/hardware would be interesting for a change. On my PC, Killer Apps are, 1. ** Outlook ** - You'll struggle, it's the main thing the mac is missing. Mail is ok and great for imap accounts compared to outlook but you'll have to use ical and address book for calendering and contacts, there's no integrated app that does it. MS Entourage and Thunderbird are both crocks of sh*te 2. Microsoft Office - MS Office 2008 3. Kaspersky Net security 2009 - clam x av 4. Visual Studio Enterprise  - xcode, you won't be building windows binaries on it though 5. Windows Live Messenger - MSN Messenger for OS X 6. PowerDVD - Use OS X DVD Player 7. Windows Media Player - iTunes or VLC, either blows WMP outta the water on the Mac 8. DVD Decrypter/DVD Fab - MacTheRipper + ffmpegx 9. Nero 6 Ultra - Toast 10. Hornresp - VMWare Fusion or Bootcamp 11. FarCry/NFS - Bootcamp will be only option 12.Sisoft Sandra/CPUZ - Inbuilt tools will do the trick - it's built on BSD so if you know your way around Unix you should have no issues, there's GUIs for things like ps that provide far more info than the command line verion So, if I were to hack OSX onto my PC hardware, what do I do for the above? PS:I would want Microsoft Office, and no substitute.

See above