Iwork or office?

I will be making the purchase of a MBP 13" 2.26GHz by the end of the summer in order to use next year for university. In previous years, I have used Word, Excel, and Powerpoint extensively, and will continue to do so. My question is whether I should purchase iwork or office 2008, or both?

I'll pipe in too as a university lecturer -- get Office for Mac 2008 and save yourself the woes of conversions and formatting problems with iWork 09. Everything in Office for Mac is compatible with the windows using world -- and you will be happy with Excel and its statistical abilities, which are absent (for the most part) in Numbers.
iWork is elegant looking software. There is a lot it doesn't do. And it is not fully compatible with the Windows world. With today's MS Office for mac service pak 2 update, everything in Office just works. And it works faster than Pages.
Ignore all the posts you are going to see about people recommending Open Office and Neo Office and all that other open source free junk. It will be insufficient for your college work and will cause no end of problems when you try to download programs from Blackboard or whatever program your school will use to distribute and upload your assignments and documents.
Get MS Office and you will be good to go for school.
Don't get both -- you will soon have a harddrive full of non-compatible files, some in Word, some in Pages, and you'll have both programs opening and giving you error messages -- the last thing you want when you are sitting in your professors office and he's asking you to print off your paper already cause he has to run in a few minutes.

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