I am also a "fairly" recent switcher it is one of the best things I did you will defiantly be glad you did it
Dear Macfriends,
I have been using a Dell Laptop with Windows XP for the last 1 year. Or rather I might say I have had a crash course on how to torture a computer user in hell for this one year. I have had spywares, adwares, viruses wreaking havoc until finally my windows decided one day to stop booting up. I have nothing but curses for the customer support at Dell. Being a scientist, I also need a stable computer which will run for the next 4 years atleast.and hence...
I want to switch over to Mac. All that I have read in this forum makes me feel I am about to make the right decision. However I need some advice so as to make my choice much more determined
1.How is Os X as far as work in Animations/Multimedia is concerned. Does it give a better performance than XP? My wife is bringing along softwares like 3D Studio Max, Flash, Adobe Director, CorelDraw which are for the Windows Platform. If I have both XP and OS X installed in my Mac, will these softwares run?
2. Will I need to seperately buy MS Office while buying my Mac or does every Mac have MS Office installed?

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