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Message: [QUOTE="UCan3, post: 5313745, member: 11446"] I just went through this with my kids / wife who went from PC to Mac in the iPad. The M4 is truly an innovation, and if anything underrated. I believe this is the first time that Apple manufactured their own chip as they used to rely on Microsoft owned companies and frankly those were clunky. I was very disappointed by my last Apple laptop purchase (5 yrs ago) but just recently upgraded my wife to the new M4 and it is lightning fast! One thing a lot of people don’t understand and it needs to be explained better is that you can buy Word/Office to run on the Mac if you want. But there are ways around it to take full advantage of the Mac and do all the things that you do on a Microsoft computer without the Office for Mac package. For example, I’m not sure if you use Google Drive but you can use Mac in the same way to share things that other people can access and read it. For example, Mac has a program called Pages. This is the version of word. But you will find, it’s not great for sharing with other people. So what’s the workaround? Well, when you go save it - chose “Export file” and select” Word for the file and share it. Or put it to Google docs and then when you open it on Google Drive, it’s a Google Doc. And you can share that too! The same as true with Mac’s Keynote which is their version of PowerPoint. When you’re done working on it, export it as a PowerPoint or upload it to Google Drive and it’s now a Google slide. Perfect for sharing or saving it as a PowerPoint on your computer and sharing it! The same is true with Apple Sheets - their version of Excel. Now this one’s a little bit more nuanced as there are some advantages to Microsoft Excel and things you can do there that you can’t do on Sheets, but with the same concept in mine, you can export it as an Excel and then share it or upload it to Google and it becomes a Google Sheet. Now you can share it! Frankly, I actually like Pages better then Word because it’s much easier to move around images and create something that looks more unique than Word Doc. Taking just a little bit of time to learn these things can be quite beneficial and let’s face it, Apple has some serious advantages when it comes to things like iMovie and Photos and things like that so for me with the ease of using an iPad or Apple product, it’s the clear winner in my book. I also have a Microsoft base computer and I’m not knocking it because it can do some great things but what you can do on an Apple product again what you can do to overcome sharing issues is not well advertised and most people never figure it out and just are happy with the advantages of the ease of use of an Apple product. Just remember you’re not locked out of all the things that you liked about Microsoft. Hope this helps! [/QUOTE]

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