Installation of Microsoft Office Professional on a Mac

F

freddyC

Hi! I would like to install M'soft Professional on a Mac B&W (450mhz
G3). I know that this Mac does not meet the requirements for Virtual
PC but I should be able to install the rest of the Office suite,
correct?? It doesn't appear there should be any problems, but I don't
want to create problems installing Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Entourage
on this Mac. Thanks!
 
C

Clive Huggan

Hello Freddy,

Trying to run Office 2004 on a 450 MHz G3 using a version of OS X would be a
struggle. Sorry, but your Mac doesn't have what's needed for the current OS
and a memory hog like Office. Even on a 2-year-old 667 MHz processor with
512 MHz RAM and a fast-access hard drive, as my daughter has, Office is
slow.

Your best configuration on your machine would probably be OS 9.2.2 running
Office 2001, which should be available cheaply, e.g. on e-Bay.

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is at least 7 hours different from the US and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
============================================================

* A SUGGESTION ‹ WAIT FOR CONSIDERED ADVICE: If you post a question, keep
re-visiting the newsgroup for several days after the first response comes
in. Sometimes it takes a few responses before the best or complete solution
is proposed; sometimes you'll be asked for further information so that a
better answer can be provided. Good tips about getting the best out of
posting are at http://word.mvps.org/FindHelp/Posting.htm (if you use Safari
and it gives you a blank page the first time, you may need to hit the
circular arrow icon -- "Reload the current page" -- a few times).

* AND ONE MORE ‹ AVOID SPAM: To avoid spam directed at contributors of
newsgroups, you can set up a "send-only" dummy e-mail account. Full
instructions are at http://www.entourage.mvps.org/tips/tip019.html

============================================================
 
M

mmmmark

I'm not sure I agree. On of the computers I still have is a Bondi iMac that
was upgraded to 500 MHz and has 512 MB RAM and office is acceptable if not
speedy on it.

I wouldn't want to do professional work all day every day on it, but it is
very acceptable for occasional work. Just so you know, Freddy, everything
will run fine, but some things might be a bit slower.

-Mark
 
R

Randall Ainsworth

mmmmark said:
I'm not sure I agree. On of the computers I still have is a Bondi iMac that
was upgraded to 500 MHz and has 512 MB RAM and office is acceptable if not
speedy on it.

I wouldn't want to do professional work all day every day on it, but it is
very acceptable for occasional work. Just so you know, Freddy, everything
will run fine, but some things might be a bit slower.

I'm running Panther and Office 2004 on a 300MHz clamshell iBook. Works
just fine (544MB helps too).
 

Ask a Question

Want to reply to this thread or ask your own question?

You'll need to choose a username for the site, which only take a couple of moments. After that, you can post your question and our members will help you out.

Ask a Question

Top