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Originally Posted by Andy_T
Maybe that was already answered in the thread, but what is your niece majoring in?
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She wants to be a doctor of veterinary medicine.
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Originally Posted by Andy_T
...she is unlikely to encounter Macintosh computers in the workplace, unless she works in video editing, photography, media or graphic design or some similarly "artistic" domain. The "standard office workplace" normally consists of some Windows PC (OK, it also might be different in an architect/doctor/musicians office, but not in a "normal" office)….
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I agree. Speaking from personal experience, Mac users who have to use PCs at the office may experience some frustration. But most computer skills are transferable from one platform to another.
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Originally Posted by Andy_T
Considering that computer literacy is to a part also the familiarity with the computer (to be precise: Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Webbrowser) for everyday work, I guess a PC might be the more logical solution (but not as cool as the Mac, of course).
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All of which also
run on have versions for Mac OS X, except
perhaps the browser Internet Explorer, but Mac OS X can run browsers such as Firefox or Chrome in addition to Safari. Browsers are very similar. But I agree with your point about learning MS Word, Excel, and Powerpoint, because those are most likely to be used in the workplace. So spending more money on MS Office than a cheap or free office productivity suite may be worth it in the long run just for the sake of familiarity. Though word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation skills are also basically transferable across suites, the specific differences can be time-consuming to learn. For example I'm having trouble changing from Word to OpenOffice specifically with their different search/replace methods.