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    Soon to be MBP owner

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by LMC, Jul 25, 2009.

  1. LMC

    LMC Notebook Enthusiast

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    Gotten a little tired of windows machines and I'll be switching soon but I have a couple of questions.

    I have a HD camcorder and have a ton of AVCHD video. Is there a program that will play this on a Mac without having to use bootcamp or parallels?

    Is there a program similar to Microsoft Publisher and Outlook for Mac? Is Pages similar to Publisher? Would I need Entourage? Is Apple mail similar to Outlook?

    Sorry for all these questions.
     
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  2. lixuelai

    lixuelai Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    iMovie 09 should do AVCHD. Not sure about Publisher but for Outlook there is always Thunderbird.
     
    lixuelai, Jul 25, 2009
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    chris-m Notebook Evangelist

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    Pages is like a hybrid of Publisher and a somewhat scaled-back Word. Apple mail is closer to Thunderbird than to Outlook. Check out Roxio Toast for video needs.

    Edit: or just use iMovie, which comes with the machine :)
     
    chris-m, Jul 25, 2009
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