Apple Woes...

So true to personal fashion, I drove down to this conference last night--without having completed any lecture preparation for my two lectures (today). So around 9:30 pm, I cracked open the MacBook Pro and began to work in MSFT Office. And I was working on the Mac side, as I now equally comfortable with both. But PPT was sluggish beyond belief, perhaps due to Rosetta translation. So I began working in Keynote (Apple's presentation software). It bites. Ok--I said it. It bites. Pages--good. Keynote--not as good.

So there I sit--tired, wondering if I should slog through (rosetta) PPT, suck it up with Keynote, or give NeoOffice a whirl.

Then it hits me. Parallels, stupid. So I opened up PPT in the Windows environment, and it worked fine.

I guess Mac-Office 2008 is worth it after all--simply for the native OSX86 coding.