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Sorry for disappearing. My laptop fan is not working and I'm using the 15 minutes or so of computer time to back up everything in stages.
Make sure you have disks and CD Key.
I only want to keep Office 2003 because I own it already and see no reason to upgrade when eveything I've heard about the newer versions is bad.
I hadn't really considered switching to a Mac. I would love something small, but I don't really know what netbooks can handle and what they can't. And I think that ultimately I do still want a DVD/CD drive.
Is there any reason I shouldn't get this at Best Buy?
I quite like the newer versions, but I'm not sure what feature changes there are. The UI is vastly different which I think the source of the unpopularity. I particularly like the navigation pane of Office 2010.
You can compromise between netbook size and notebook speed with something like this:
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Not as small as a netbook, not as powerful as a larger notebook, but should be fine for most tasks and still not real expensive.
Not as small as a netbook, not as powerful as a larger notebook, but should be fine for most tasks and still not real expensive.
Oooh, I really like that one! And I could get a DVD/CD thing as an attachment (or whatever it's called) to burn and rip CDs, right?
And I could get it in red.
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Yeah you can get an external drive like this one:
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I adore my 11" Macbook Air and you can get an external DVD drive for it as well.
I'm not trying to push a particular laptop or company, but I think it's worth going a step up from a netbook if it's affordable.
I'm running Office 2003 on Windows 7, if that's a concern. My only recurring problem with it is that Word keeps not remembering my settings. (Has anyone figured out a fix for this?)
Does anyone know of a site like photobucket that allows image hotlinking but with a less prudish TOS? They just yanked a really tame picture of mine, and I'm a little disgruntled.
I'd use flickr, except they have rules that if you hotlink you need to link back to them, and I don't want to.
ita, I could give you ftp access to a folder on one of my sites, if that would work for you.
I quite like the newer versions, but I'm not sure what feature changes there are. The UI is vastly different which I think the source of the unpopularity. I particularly like the navigation pane of Office 2010.
I agree - the navigation is very different from the classic Office look and feel, but once I got used to it it really was a faster cleaner experience.
