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Just a bit advice please. I bought a Powerbook g4 last year and 12 months on we are still delighted with its build quality and reliability. I did however make the mistake when buying a 2nd machine of getting a windows based laptop, which since November has proved to be an unreliable pile of junk (It is a top spec machine from a well know manufacturer).
Anyway I have now started to think of buying a small lightweight machine that can be taken to clients (I am looking at a 12" ibook g4. Obviously I can get word and excel for that machine, but does anyone know if there is a simple but reliable drawing package for the Mac. Basically when meeting clients I need to take professional notes (word will do that), show pictures of our portfolio of gardens (os x can do that) and finally I want to be able to do a simple line drawing of the shape of the clients garden.
Can anyone recommend a software package that will do the job but not cost the earth and will be simple to use.
Anyway I have now started to think of buying a small lightweight machine that can be taken to clients (I am looking at a 12" ibook g4. Obviously I can get word and excel for that machine, but does anyone know if there is a simple but reliable drawing package for the Mac. Basically when meeting clients I need to take professional notes (word will do that), show pictures of our portfolio of gardens (os x can do that) and finally I want to be able to do a simple line drawing of the shape of the clients garden.
Can anyone recommend a software package that will do the job but not cost the earth and will be simple to use.
CatherineJ said:
Thanks for that. What else does Appleworks have with it? I am trying to look at apple.com now.
It does pretty much everything. Word processor, database, spredasheets, drawing, painting, presentation. If Apple had made it MS compatible they would have been on to a winner. Its being replaced by iWork now which at the moment doesnt have the same number of features but is MS compatible .
Its dead easy. There are drawing tools for all simple shapes, just click and drag using the touchpad. You can fill using gradients and textures and create more complicated shapes using bezier curves. Drawing packages really don't get much more simple. Drop me a mail and i'll send you a copy on CD to "evaluate".
OmniGraffle and Intaglio are good vector drawing apps and very reasonably priced (about £45 and £55 respectively). They are both simple to use, but manage to be able to produce some highly complex stuff when required.
mmm-five said:
OmniGraffle and Intaglio are good vector drawing apps and very reasonably priced (about £45 and £55 respectively). They are both simple to use, but manage to be able to produce some highly complex stuff when required.
Doesn't a demo of OmniGraffle come installed on PowerBooks?
Check out Mariner Software - Office based suite of Apps. Look well polished and getting better all the time.
Similarly Graphic Converter - excellent sub for Photoshop, and has come on leaps and bounds in recent months.
Apple's own iWorks - Pages and Keynote are good for Word/PP replacement. Only a proper alternative to Excel is missing - some options, but a bit off the mark for now. Similarly a decent DB - Filemaker is alright, but not the most intuitive App ever designed and to be used by Joe Average.
Similarly Graphic Converter - excellent sub for Photoshop, and has come on leaps and bounds in recent months.
Apple's own iWorks - Pages and Keynote are good for Word/PP replacement. Only a proper alternative to Excel is missing - some options, but a bit off the mark for now. Similarly a decent DB - Filemaker is alright, but not the most intuitive App ever designed and to be used by Joe Average.
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