installing office:mac professional on macbookpro

[fresh mac-er]

Hi, I just got my macbookpro and tried to install Office:Mac 2004
Professional Edition.... but I was unable to choose the Office Setup
Assistant from the menu. Alternatively, my macbookpro also seemed to having
trouble reading the installation CD because it took a very long time (and
still is running now...) preparing to copy Microsoft Office 2004 onto my
Macintosh HD.

I've waited for approx. an hour, and it is still preparing to copy 14 items
from my installation CD.

I would like to know if its the CD that is faulty, or is it because
Office:mac 2004 professional edition is not compatible with the new
intel-based macbookpro...

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi,

The Office 2004 part of Office Professional will run on the MacBook, but
the Virtual PC Portion will not. I don't have an Office Professional
install CD or a MacBook to try it on, but I do know that any attempt to
run Virtual PC on any Intel Processor based Mac will not work at this time.

I would exchange the Pro version for the regular verison and wait for
the next version of Virtual PC. No timetable has been announced for VPC
for the duo-core Macs yet.

-Jim