Mac A1181

My neice has a Mac Laptop model A1181 and she is at Central Michigan she needs Office 2010 and she is not sure if she buys the academnic version if it will install on her Mac being that version is PC based. Office 2010 for a Mac is supposed to be coming out later this year but she needs it now as school is starting. Thanks for any feedback on this.

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Office 2010 has very few things that can't be done by existing Mac Office applications. http://www.neooffice.org/ has Word, Powerpoint and Excel compatibility with their free software. That MacBook would appear to be one of the original MacBooks. It may not have enough juice for the Mac version of Office when it comes out. That remains to be seen. However, you could install Windows virtualization on the machine if access to Access is necessary, or Mac OS X Mail's Exchange compatibility or web based access to Exchange Server is not a possibility. Virtualization options are documented here*:
http://www.macmaps.com/macosxnative.html#WINTEL
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.

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Read here
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