Paging the Mac-isti

Having destroyed my Vaio laptop and not intending to progress from XP into
Vista I'm wondering if it's time to investigate a macbook rather than Suse
or somesuch. Some questions:

What is the usual mail program with outlook type functions and will it sync
with exchange server
What office apps suite?
Can a Mac connect to a Remote Desktop session on a MS 2003 Server

 

AFAIK, MacMail doesn't offer Exchange server connectivity, but MS
Entourage is the current Mac version of Outlook.

MS Office.

Appleworks is fine for basic stuff and Pages is a half decent word
processor, but it's a bit more biased towards DTP type stuff than word
crunching. Keynote is a fine and better alternative to PowerPoint.

Yes. You can use the MS client which is freely downloadable from MS, but
I use TSClientX - an X-windows based alternative which supports all
versions of Remote Desktop as well as VNC.

MacBooks rock. I have Win2K pro installed on mine, running under VMWare
- it pisses all over my Thinkpad from a great height in terms of speed.

 

MS has a Mac version of Outlook.

 

Called Entorage - part of the Mac Office suite - current version is
PowerPC native and works on intel Macs under emulation so is bit
sloooow.
Doug

 

I've got it (MS Office for Mac, including entourage) and AFAIK it
doesn't work under emulation at all. But ICBW.

 

Dunno about Macs. It would appear that the CEO of Dell has Ububtu on his
lappy. <http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2115645,00.asp> YKIMS

And to answer you questions,
1) Evolution talks to MS Exchange.
2) Open Office just works, ok.
3) Terminal Services client.

To automatically connect to MS network file shares to mount points requires
a small amount of research[1] but is easy, really.


[1] About one Google second.

 

Haven't yet tried Entourage, but the rest of Office works fine. I
haven't noticed it being slow, either..... perhaps Rosetta emulation
works significantly better if you max. out the memory?