iWork '08
Apple’s amazing productivity suite for the Mac, iWork ’08 includes three applications: Pages ’08 for word processing with an incredible sense of style; Numbers ’08 for powerful, compelling spreadsheets made easy; and Keynote ’08 for cinema-quality presentations for everyone.
Install iWork ’08 Family Pack* on up to five Mac computers in your household.
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Overview
Numbers ’08
Introducing Numbers ‘08, an innovative spreadsheet application that lets you organize your data to fit the way you think. Do everything from setting-up the family budget to completing a lab report to creating complex financial documents. Resize and sort tables without affecting other data. Create beautiful charts with one click. Scale spreadsheets for printing using an interactive slider.
Highlights
- • More than 150 functions
- • Intelligent tables
- • 2D and 3D charts
- • Interactive print view
- • Apple-designed templates for home, education, and business
- • Import from and export to Microsoft Excel and other formats
Pages ’08
Writing comes naturally when you’re using Pages ’08. Start with one of over 140 templates to write beautiful letters, resumes, reports, business plans, and more. And create media-rich newsletters, brochures, and flyers with point-and-click ease.
HIghlights
- • Streamlined word processing
- • Powerful page layout
- • Change tracking
- • Advanced image tools
- • More than 140 Apple-designed templates, including 80 new templates
- • Import from and export to Microsoft Word and other formats
Keynote ’08
Create stunning, cinema-quality presentations more easily than ever with Keynote ’08. Use new animation tools to move and scale images along a path. Or rotate them on the face of a cube or on a turntable. Add dazzling text effects and slide transitions. Even record and deliver narrated presentations.
Highlights
- • More than 35 Apple-designed themes
- • Smart Builds with drop zones
- • Powerful graphics tools, including Instant Alpha
- • Built-in narration recording
- • Export to YouTube, iPhone, and iPod
- • Import from and export to Microsoft PowerPoint and other formats
* The Family Pack Software License Agreement allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on up to a maximum of five (5) Apple-labeled computers at a time as long as those computers are located in the same household and used by persons who occupy that same household. By “household” we mean a person or persons sharing the same housing unit such as a home, apartment, mobile home or condominium. This license does not extend to students who reside at a separate on-campus location or to business or commercial users.
What’s in the Box
- • CD with applications, fonts, themes, and templates
- • Printed and electronic documentation
Minimum System Requirements
- • Mac computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5, or PowerPC G4 (500 MHz or faster) processor
- • 512MB of RAM; 1GB recommended
- • 32MB of video memory
- • Mac OS X v10.4.10 or later
- • QuickTime 7.2 or later
- • iLife ’08 recommended
- • 1GB of available disk space
- • CD drive required for installation
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Most Recent Reviews
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iWork '08
Bought this for Numbers
Written by JB from Brooklyn
Dec 23, 2008
Numbers is slow as molasses. I've tried it on a number of machines (I had a Quad-core G5 Power Mac, and now I have an 8-core Mac P…Read morero and a Intel MacBook Pro) and even on my newest, fastest Intel machines, it's practicably unusable. For instance, right now as I right this on my MacBook Pro, it takes 4 seconds to paste in 20 characters of text (copied from another cell) -- during which OS X needs to show the spinning rainbow cursor! Great software design -- it looks and feels slick, but what an unbelievable FAIL when it comes to implementation. Apple needs to do some some serious work to turn this from a toy into a real tool, in my opinion.
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iWork '08
The worst
Written by CD from Monkton
Dec 18, 2008
I was so spoiled by MS Office, but the Apple tech couldn't help me with Entourage, and persuaded me to take the whole program off …Read moreand purchase iWork '08 instead. Word was so user friendly; "pages" (the comparable program to Word) is great if you are five years old and want to play with shapes. But if you can figure out how to print a sheet of mailing labels, please contact me. If I could give it a negative five stars, I would. CD
(28 of 55 people found this review useful)
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iWork '08
Mixed Review for Pages
Written by JA from LOS ANGELES
Dec 17, 2008
While the price of this product is certainly more user friendly than Word, or the Office Suite, I am not sold on the use of the Pa…Read moreges. I worked on a friends computer putting together a resume. While it was nice that there are a number of templates for resumes, I was confounded on why they would make a resume template which split words at the end of a line... this is not good resume formatting. So I attempted to get rid of that format, but I really had no clue how to do that. The formatting options are very limited and certainly not as intuitive as most Apple or Apple related products. Generally, I think you are getting what you pay for. It is less expensive, but also has fewer options for making a document exactly as you want it to be. Further, I had this friend of mine email the document to me for me to additional editing, and discovered that I was not able to open it in Word. (I am hoping it is possible to save as a word document!)
Normally I am a huge Apple/Mac fan, but now I can see why Word is the industry standard. I will hold onto my Word and won't rush out to purchase iWork just yet.(29 of 35 people found this review useful)
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Most Useful Reviews
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iWork '08
Numbers is not for students studying science and engineering
Written by YK from Ann Arbor
Aug 24, 2007
Numbers is definitely a revolutionary product in terms of user interface and organizing spread sheets. However, it lacks of severa…Read morel essential functionalities that all the other excel-like software provides... which is x-y correlation line plotting, trendline, simple curve fitting, etc.
If you are a student taking scientific labs, since numbers cannot handle your experimental data, you should use MS excel.
I was waiting for a counterpart of MS excel from apple, but it was painful for me to see numbers. Hopefully, apple should quickly relaunch a updated version of numbers that provides basic features for students learning science and engineering.
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iWork '08
iWork Still Useless
Written by DB from Patchogue
Aug 15, 2007
I hate Microsoft products because of the are so clumsy. I continue to use Appleworks, even on my office PC, but it is getting old.…Read more I have hoped that iWork could replace it, but even the latest version, slick as it is, cannot do so. Where are all the drawing and painting tools. How can I draw a simple arc? I greatly miss the "insert Equation" feature, and I am not sure that buying Mathtype will remedy the situation. Since Appleworks is running poorly on the newer systems, and iWork seems so misguided, what is a scientist and educator, such as I to do? I do need to have equations in papers that I write, and in exams that I give.
Will I have to switch to using the ghastly MS Word for everything? Even Nisus seems to no longer have an equations feature in its Mac OSX versions. I have been using a Mac since 1985 (one of those late-adopters, of that miraculous Mac-era!) and have owned more than 15 Macs. Are we to understand that Apple no longer wants Macs in science and technology? It is bad enough that there is no equivalent available to SciWriter, an XML based mathematics writing program for the Windows world, but having to do without equations is really dismal.(4286 of 6503 people found this review useful)
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iWork '08
As if I need a reason...
Written by JF from Seattle
Aug 8, 2007
...to spend more time on this Mac!
Bought iWork '08 and iLife '08 today. I've spent every moment since just screwin' around with…Read more them, placing my job responsibilities down at the lower end of the priority list.
Numbers is the primary reason I bought this program, and although I have a lot of work to do to understand it fully, I can already tell that its integration with Keynote will be very beneficial for the reports and sales presentations my team will be constructing. I have the only Mac in the office of over 800 desktop machines, and yet on a daily basis, each of those sees the results of iLife and iWork. I could not be happier with this new release! Now it's just a matter of a grueling two more months until I can put Leopard on this PowerBook.....the agony of being an impatient man.....(3168 of 4815 people found this review useful)
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