On Monday 13 June 2005 07:58 pm, chefren wrote: > Hello Dave, > > > I am beginning to think *very* seriously about using a Windows computer > > *just* to run MS Excel so I can get reliably and straightforwardly the hard > > copy I need. Neither gnumeric nor kspread running on OpenBSD 3.6 qualify on > > the basis of my brief experience with those two programs. > > > > I will continue to use OpenBSD for accessing the internet, but my business > > related computing/printing tasks may well have to be done on Windows. > > > I keep a Mac for that in my neighborhood, base is BSD, user interface from > Apple > and Office is from Microsoft itself, very handy combination. Mac Mini is > probably the lowest cost solution for this. > > Ignore people that don't want to understand that just to be polite you > sometimes > need to see an Office file the way a sender intended. A sender who > understandably knows nothing but Windows and needs an answer and not a > question. > > > And besides, a Mac is fun to study from a to Z! > > +++chefren
I have been thinking about getting a Mac. I hadn't considered a mini, but that is an intriguing idea. What does the above hardware and software cost in the US?
