QuickBooks

That is probably because I haven't the foggiest idea what QuickBooks really is. ...

hour battery life, 256MB of memory, 40GB drive, and QuickBooks for Mac. ...

Lingering thorns in my side: Quickbooks (done in 1st qtr 2003) Distiller (Carbon anytime, anyone?) Myth II for hardware rendering Director 8.5 (Get with the freaking program, Macromedia!) CuBase until two days ago (tho X version is BUGGY as hell so far) Extensis Portolfio (you said SUMMER 2002. Summer is gone, jerks)

I assume by Classic, you mean OS 9 in that during your Jag install you didn't bother installing 9.2.2? I considered not installing it (OS 9.2.2) very carefully and in the end had to keep it (Quickbooks, Distiller, Commotion to name a few). I as thinking of running QB on a separate box with Classic, same for Distillar, but I just use them too often so it would get old scooting...

If in six months I have to launch Classic only for stupid Distiller, I am going to be very annoyed.

Extensis is supposed to be X ready in Summer, but Quickbooks and Distiller show no signs of going Carbon it appears. ...

I was skeptical, but man, when it rains it pours. The apps have really been shipping lately. I'm very happy and functional, but here's a few holdouts they keep me launching Classic. Acrobat Distiller (c'mon, you can carbonize the main app, but not the distiller?) QuickBooks (I have MYOB for X, but I can't get the conversion to show my historical records as I expect. I'm sure...

Hello! Thanks for your reply. Just wondering what kind of CDs you were talking about, Kinniken. You are meaning CD-RWs right? CD-RWs would be great as you can reuse them, but for some reason the CDs created with CD-RWs do not work on a lot of systems (my 8500 and Performa for example) maybe I should give my students the choice between a floppy or a CD and if they choose CD...

No, I define my mother as the average mac user, and she sure as shit don't need to blow 600 dollars on no MS office. She types her letters in Appleworks, prints and mails them. She can open the few MS office files that she gets from email forwards in Appleworks. Agreed. oh hell yeah, thats the best game ever.

I don't think a single person answered the question properly, which was "apps that every Mac user should have", not "Your favorite ten apps". Here's what every Mac user should have, including justifications: 1. Microsoft Office (Appleworks is for amateurs, Office is mandatory for biz to biz communications. Have fun sending Appleworks docs to clients.) 2. Explorer (Yes, more...