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been offered an old Mac iBook G4, for very little. Been looking at something for travelling, movies, backing up photos, something for the missus for the train.

However everything we have is for Windows based PCs. So a couple of questions:

1. Will RAW photos imported onto a Mac be readable on a PC? Or does it use a different format?

2. Will our existing AVIs and other movies play or do they all need to be converted?

3. If the Mac has Office, are the documents useable on PC or do they need to be converted?

4. Whats the battery life like?

Thanks in advance...
 
grahamc said:
been offered an old Mac iBook G4, for very little. Been looking at something for travelling, movies, backing up photos, something for the missus for the train.

However everything we have is for Windows based PCs. So a couple of questions:

1. Will RAW photos imported onto a Mac be readable on a PC? Or does it use a different format?

2. Will our existing AVIs and other movies play or do they all need to be converted?

3. If the Mac has Office, are the documents useable on PC or do they need to be converted?

4. Whats the battery life like?

Thanks in advance...
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1. RAW is RAW, no matter what machine you put them on, it all depends on the software you're using at the end of the day.

2. They will play, download VLC player, it's free and will play pretty much anything.

3. Yes, either MS Office or iWork will be fine, as long as you save your documents with the correct extension (.doc instead of .docx for example)

4. Depends how much use the machine has had, impossible to say.
 
You can use Open Office on the mac also, that'll help with using Windows and Mac Word documents and the other way around. You'll find that nowadays it's very easy to use files from both platforms.
 
Even Apples iWork will save files as Microsoft Office documents so you have a wide choice.

Open Office is an excellent program, especially as it's free
 
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