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 No Upgrade Pricing, 2007-08-09
Apple has created a new version of iWork, and they provide no upgrade pricing, effectively sticking it to customers and vendors. If you buy this product, you will be stuck with the old version and have to pay FULL PRICE for the new version that contains a spreadsheet application.
And, yes, Apple deleted any comments complaining about the upgrade policy on their discussion boards.
Good, Low-cost Page Layout Solution for the Mac, 2007-06-04
I got this for Pages 2 (I'm upgrading from Pages 1) - and I don't really see much difference, aside from some new templates. Nevertheless, it is a better program for page layout than Microsoft Word - and about equal as a word processor. Since there is no upgrade version, I had to pay full price to get it - but then it isn't that expensive. At under $90, the price is quite reasonable. If you're doing page layout on a Mac (newsletters, brochures, etc.) & don't want to shell out the big bucks for Quark or Illustrator, this is an excellent choice.
2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
 New iMac User, 2007-01-11
I got the iWork software after buying my new iMac 24 and was excited to learn how to use the word processing program with all of it's graphics capabilities. I even subscribed to Lynda dot com training for a month to learn all of the program's capabilities. I have not used the presentations software program yet but the word processing was extremely frustrating to a person who has spent the past 15 years using WordPerfect and Microsoft Word for word processing. I prefer to be able to set up short cuts with icons and I found it extremely confusing trying to learn how to combine graphics boxes, etc., etc., with my word processing docs. And that's really what attracted me to the iMac in the first place! Even after going through the professional on-line training I still can't get around inside the program and function effectively. After several frustrating days of working at it I purchased and installed the new "Parallels" program on my iMac along with a full-priced new version of Microsoft XP and reinstalled my do-able windows programs on my new iMac. So far, buying iWork was a mistake for me and combined with having to purchase Parallels and a $200 Windows XP, an expensive one. I love the screen colors and hd resolution on my iMac but found the Pages program to be too confusing for me utilize as a researcher/writer. I needed to be able to customize the way my documents look with adjustments that are not part of Pages. If your documents are for school or are fairly simple and you can figure out how Apple combines graphics with word processing, maybe it will work for you and it will be cheaper than getting the windows programs. Pages comes with dozens of ready-made templates which look great but as soon as you try to change the way they look confusion sets in, at least it did for me.
 IiPhoto 06 - big improvement, 2007-01-03
iPhoto 2006 is a huge improvement over the last version.
3 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
Perfect Feature vs. Price, 2006-11-04
I have a PowerBook, an iMac, and an eMac at home that are used in different ways. The kids use the eMac for school work, and my wife & I use the other 2 Macs for home business.
Although most school work was required in MS-PowerPoint or MS-Word, exporting from iWork '06 Pages and Keynote was very simple to do with 90-95% accuracy. Our kids said they just do minor editing at school before submitting the work.
For home business, we use Pages to do our proposals, bills, and receipts. And use Keynote for presentations. One thing that I thought was amazing, is the fact that I can display the notes and the succeeding slide on my PowerBook, while projecting just the current slide for the customer to see.
For the price of the Family Pack, we were licensed to use iWork '06 on 5 Macs on the same network. The cost fitted our budget perfectly. The only thing I wish was available in Keynote was timed transition (example: after 3 seconds show bullet#1, after 5 seconds show bullet#2, after 2 seconds show the chart)
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