I’m a longtime PC guy thinking about switching it up to Mac. Macs look nice and sleek but whenever I take a peak at one in the store and see all the ways its operating system is different from Windows I feel like I’m about to get dumped into the middle of downtown Mumbai without knowing anything about the local language or customs and being expected to find my way home.
On the other hand, there is something about Microsoft Word that bugs me. It tries too hard to anticipate what it thinks I want to do that sometimes it keeps me from doing what I actually want to do. Change a margin for effect on one paragraph on page 1 and it still wants to change it on page 50. Do a numbered list and it tries to do a number list everytime you subsequently write a number. Can Pages be any better? But – doesn’t most of the civilized world already use Word and therefore my writing most be Word formatted to receive any kind of consideration?
THE QUESTION OF THE DAY:
Is an Apple or a PC a better computer for writers (and also -Word or Pages – which is better for writing?)