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Getting GroveSocial moved over to all Mac/Apple everything. We had been using Office365 but not going to keep paying for full MS Office. So learning to use Mac/Apple Apps for everything. Email is still O365 exchange but no MS applications at all on that side for me.
It's not as painful as I thought it would be
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@Minion-Queen said:
Getting GroveSocial moved over to all Mac/Apple everything. We had been using Office365 but not going to keep paying for full MS Office. So learning to use Mac/Apple Apps for everything. Email is still O365 exchange but no MS applications at all on that side for me.
It's not as painful as I thought it would be
What about LibreOffice? Free on Mac and way more full featured than the Apple tools.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Minion-Queen said:
Getting GroveSocial moved over to all Mac/Apple everything. We had been using Office365 but not going to keep paying for full MS Office. So learning to use Mac/Apple Apps for everything. Email is still O365 exchange but no MS applications at all on that side for me.
It's not as painful as I thought it would be
What about LibreOffice? Free on Mac and way more full featured than the Apple tools.
Well from what I am seeing so far there is not a need to use anything other than, Pages and Numbers. They work just fine. The native Email app is also fine. The calendaring is a little funky though, so trying to get used to that.
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@Minion-Queen said:
Getting GroveSocial moved over to all Mac/Apple everything. We had been using Office365 but not going to keep paying for full MS Office. So learning to use Mac/Apple Apps for everything. Email is still O365 exchange but no MS applications at all on that side for me.
It's not as painful as I thought it would be
I have to ask "why?"
I am not a Mac user so I don't actually know any benefits of using them. I have family members that use them but I have almost zero understanding of the Mac world.
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Are there significant benefits? or is it an image thing?
How many are you deploying?
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@Minion-Queen said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Minion-Queen said:
Getting GroveSocial moved over to all Mac/Apple everything. We had been using Office365 but not going to keep paying for full MS Office. So learning to use Mac/Apple Apps for everything. Email is still O365 exchange but no MS applications at all on that side for me.
It's not as painful as I thought it would be
What about LibreOffice? Free on Mac and way more full featured than the Apple tools.
Well from what I am seeing so far there is not a need to use anything other than, Pages and Numbers. They work just fine. The native Email app is also fine. The calendaring is a little funky though, so trying to get used to that.
That's the issue.... so far. When you need the flexibility is a bad time to find out that you are limited unnecessary. Since LibreOffice is free, there is little reason to use the less capable Pages and Numbers just for the sake of using something branded by Apple. That they work well on an iPad might be a selling point if you plan to move files back and forth. But if you plan to work with people who might not be on a Mac, Pages and Numbers might not be good choices.
It's really about future flexibility more than anything. Although since I have a Mac and have tried to use them, I don't find them as comfortable to use as LibreOffice either.
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@nadnerB said:
@Minion-Queen said:
Getting GroveSocial moved over to all Mac/Apple everything. We had been using Office365 but not going to keep paying for full MS Office. So learning to use Mac/Apple Apps for everything. Email is still O365 exchange but no MS applications at all on that side for me.
It's not as painful as I thought it would be
I have to ask "why?"
I am not a Mac user so I don't actually know any benefits of using them. I have family members that use them but I have almost zero understanding of the Mac world.
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Are there significant benefits? or is it an image thing?
How many are you deploying?
Are you integrating them with some kind of server or network storage?Is this question about "Why" Mac or "why" Pages and Numbers?
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Since GroveSocial is well Social/Marketing. There are a lot of Apps available via the apple store for us to use for free that make our job much easier.
As far as Pages and Numbers the why is more the why not. MS Word is reading things just fine and I can read Word documents without any issues. So there is no real reason not to. Pages has everything I have needed for formatting and well typing a document. So I am not seeing a significant benefit to move to Libreoffice at all (just another thing to have installed) and I do work from the Ipad a bit when traveling so having that just seamlessly work is very nice. There is a way to use Libreoffice on the Ipad but it is horrible.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Is this question about "Why" Mac or "why" Pages and Numbers?
"Why Mac?", the question is.
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@Minion-Queen said:
Since GroveSocial is well Social/Marketing. There are a lot of Apps available via the apple store for us to use for free that make our job much easier.
As far as Pages and Numbers the why is more the why not. MS Word is reading things just fine and I can read Word documents without any issues. So there is no real reason not to. Pages has everything I have needed for formatting and well typing a document. So I am not seeing a significant benefit to move to Libreoffice at all (just another thing to have installed) and I do work from the Ipad a bit when traveling so having that just seamlessly work is very nice. There is a way to use Libreoffice on the Ipad but it is horrible.
Righto. So I imagine that you are going cloud storage with versioning and Time Machine for end point backups?
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And we only have 3 Mac's for now. But hope to grow from there. We have debated for some lower level staff of having them on Chromebooks. Most of their job would be just online posting for customers. So the Chromebook would be perfect for them.
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@nadnerB said:
@Minion-Queen said:
Since GroveSocial is well Social/Marketing. There are a lot of Apps available via the apple store for us to use for free that make our job much easier.
As far as Pages and Numbers the why is more the why not. MS Word is reading things just fine and I can read Word documents without any issues. So there is no real reason not to. Pages has everything I have needed for formatting and well typing a document. So I am not seeing a significant benefit to move to Libreoffice at all (just another thing to have installed) and I do work from the Ipad a bit when traveling so having that just seamlessly work is very nice. There is a way to use Libreoffice on the Ipad but it is horrible.
Righto. So I imagine that you are going cloud storage with versioning and Time Machine for end point backups?
Yes we are.
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@Minion-Queen said:
@nadnerB said:
@Minion-Queen said:
Since GroveSocial is well Social/Marketing. There are a lot of Apps available via the apple store for us to use for free that make our job much easier.
As far as Pages and Numbers the why is more the why not. MS Word is reading things just fine and I can read Word documents without any issues. So there is no real reason not to. Pages has everything I have needed for formatting and well typing a document. So I am not seeing a significant benefit to move to Libreoffice at all (just another thing to have installed) and I do work from the Ipad a bit when traveling so having that just seamlessly work is very nice. There is a way to use Libreoffice on the Ipad but it is horrible.
Righto. So I imagine that you are going cloud storage with versioning and Time Machine for end point backups?
Yes we are.
Rughto. There endeth my knowledge of Macs.
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@Minion-Queen do you at least get a choice in colour?
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For the Mac's? Well they come in 2 colors really so not really there. However you better believe that all my accessories match cause Mac stuff has a million pretty colored accessories to choose from. And as you can imagine everything is very girly looking. Some people on my team complain when they get something of mine cause it is either purple or pink
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@Minion-Queen said:
For the Mac's? Well they come in 2 colors really so not really there. However you better believe that all my accessories match cause Mac stuff has a million pretty colored accessories to choose from. And as you can imagine everything is very girly looking. Some people on my team complain when they get something of mine cause it is either purple or pink
lol! Stylish hand-me-downs from the boss.
I bet @Mike-Ralston loves rocking pink notebooks when at Starbucks
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Working on getting everything setup for the new family farm business. Looks like I will be doing part-time IT work for them.
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@nadnerB said:
@Minion-Queen said:
For the Mac's? Well they come in 2 colors really so not really there. However you better believe that all my accessories match cause Mac stuff has a million pretty colored accessories to choose from. And as you can imagine everything is very girly looking. Some people on my team complain when they get something of mine cause it is either purple or pink
lol! Stylish hand-me-downs from the boss.
I bet @Mike-Ralston loves rocking pink notebooks when at Starbucks
lol, does he even drink what ever they serve there?Yeah he hates IOS/OSX anything so he refuses to take anything from me. It's @scottalanmiller and @art_of_shred that tend to get my hand me downs.
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@Minion-Queen said:
@nadnerB said:
@Minion-Queen said:
For the Mac's? Well they come in 2 colors really so not really there. However you better believe that all my accessories match cause Mac stuff has a million pretty colored accessories to choose from. And as you can imagine everything is very girly looking. Some people on my team complain when they get something of mine cause it is either purple or pink
lol! Stylish hand-me-downs from the boss.
I bet @Mike-Ralston loves rocking pink notebooks when at Starbucks
lol, does he even drink what ever they serve there?Yeah he hates IOS/OSX anything so he refuses to take anything from me. It's @scottalanmiller and @art_of_shred that tend to get my hand me downs.
Yeah, I always got all the Android stuff...lol
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@handsofqwerty I'll take Android stuff if you don't want it! 8-)
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I am actually just getting to work today since my son had tubes put in his ears this morning. Everything went well, and he was hanging from the ceiling fans when I left the house. (I think the docs gave him a shot of adrenaline or something, lol).
