| 
| From: Apple
List Price: $99.00
Buy New: $79.99
You Save: $19.01 (19%)
New (10) Used (1) from $79.99
Rating:  58 reviews
Sales Rank: 90
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Mac Os X, Mac Os X Intel
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Family Pack
Operating System: Macintosh
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5.1 x 0.8
MPN: MB625Z/A
Model: MB625Z/A
UPC: 885909140459
EAN: 0885909140459
ASIN: B000BX7H52
Release Date: August 11, 2007
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Promotion: Save $10.00 when you spend $50.00 or more on Qualifying Items offered by Amazon.com. Enter code BMLSAVES at checkout. Terms and Conditions
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
|
| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 6-10 of 58
 Very good product, especially for the price August 18, 2007
C. L. Hinkle (Bellaire, TX United States)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Keynote is the star of this suite. I routinely use it to create presentations that people can't believe. I work in an all -Windows shop, but I'll bring my Mac to do presentations with Keynote because I want to make sure I do as good a presentation as is possible, and I always have people telling me that my presentation is the best they've seen and that their presentations never seem to look as good. (Then they complain that their department doesn't let them use Apples.)
Pages is a decent page layout and word processor program. I usually use MS Word, just from habit, but I'm slowly converting. Numbers is the newest and weakest part of the package, and it will need an upgrade before I use it. But the suite is easily worth $99, even if Keynote is the only product I use.
And I know that some people complain about not having an upgrade price from earlier versions, but for those people, my recommendation is just to treat the $99 price as an upgrade price; it's still cheaper than a lot of other applications' upgrades. (And when you sell your machine someday, you can legally include the older version on the machine.)
 A great suite of apps....almost December 31, 2007
J. Piatek (Connecticut, USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I converted to the iWork suite a couple of years ago, and this update is a nice improvement.
I use Keynote to do presentations constantly; presentations are easy to create and edit, allowing the user to define multiple "master" slides to control the design (PowerPoint, on the other hand, only allows the user 2 masters - the title slide and a bulleted text slide). The text editing options are very flexible and the presentation a snap. There's no way I would go back to PowerPoint or OpenOffice after using Keynote -- does save to .ppt if necessary, though.
Pages is a nice design app - a bit over featured for simple form letters (TextEdit is simpler to use and free with the Mac OS), but works very well when dealing with graphics and text. I've used Pages to design large posters and longer documents with figures and have been very happy with the results. The only complaints I have are table editing (slow and cumbersome still :() and the default font (Helvetica. I can change it, but it's not that simple). Converts easily to .doc and .pdf if you need to share your results with others.
Numbers (the new addition for '08) is not quite enough to replace Excel...but I expect it will be in the next revision or so. It just doesn't have the calculation/analysis options (creation of histograms, for example) that Excel does. The view options and charts are a bit more flexible than Excel, so this app shows promise - its just not there yet. Fine for balancing checkbooks or creating lists, but not quite for data analysis.
This is a good start -- and it will keep MS Office off of my Mac, with the exception of Excel. Word and PowerPoint are no longer necessary. Pages and Keynote alone are worth the cost...the only reason this is 4 stars instead of 5 is the limited features in Numbers.
Apple gets it, Microsoft doesn't January 24, 2008
Hugh Watkins (WOODSTOCK, GA USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I hope Apple understands what they are doing right and keeps doing it. I have multiple computers at home, they used to be windows machines but recently switched to Macs. One of the reasons I switched was the cost to keep legal with my families licenses was outrageous with Microsoft, not just the OS but the Office suite too.
The Mac has a nice port of OpenOffice called Neooffice, but with how cheap the family pack of iWork is I went ahead and got that too. It does exactly what I need it to do, for the most part I create basic documents and spreadsheets and it works great.
I'm pretty excited to use Keynote also for some presentations, but have not done so yet.
Overall a good product at a great price.
Recommended August 18, 2007
Su Ling Chen
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
The iWork 08 family edition which let you install it on 5 Mac's for only $99, so for those who are complaining about not having an upgrade then try buying MS Office. MS Office cost around $400 depending on which version you buy and if you want a upgrade it will cost you around $300. So I really don't understand what people are complaining about having no upgrade. This iWork 08 is very easy to use and easy to convert to for people who use MS Office. You just can't go wrong with buying iWork 08 for the price.
 No ODF support October 23, 2007
A. Pierce
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
iWork can't open ODF documents or save to ODF format. Saving to more other common formats such as RTF is a bit more difficult than simply setting a one time user preference.
|
|
|
