What word processor is right for me?

Hi guys.
I have done extensive searches on this topic, but still have some unanswered questions.
First of all, my 1gig black macbook will be arriving some time next week (fingers crossed). I can't wait. As so many people with the intel chips, I now have to chose a proper word processor that will meet my needs. Needless to say, I can't wait until Office 2007 is released!
Essentially I need to be able to receive word documents and powerpoint presentations from windows machines. I would like to be able to open them and edit them as I please. Also, I need to be able to send them back, open them on a windows machine and print them.
I am a university student, so I only use word for papers that can occasionally include digital photos, or just pictures from the internet.
I use powerpoint to look at lecture notes from my professor and need to able to take notes on them i.e. add my own info to the slides.
I can live without Excel for now. I have seen the recent beta of NeoOffice, that looks like a very good solution. Can I send/receive documents to/from windows machines? My only problem with this solution is that it seems to require close to 400mb. That seems large to me and I would think the program might not be as snappy as I want it to be. Any thoughts?
I could instal MS Office for macs, but since it doesn't run natively, I am hesitating. What about a program like Papyrus? I have downloaded a trial version and it runs extremely fast. I was not able to find a powerpoint equivalent on there. Is there one?
Also, what about iWork? I saw that pages is is mainly for publishing and using fancy templates...Is that program more than I need? Keynote of course looks great.
Any comments are much-appreciated.

Appleworks has always worked for me since leaving microshaft! I use notta for MS stuff on my computer and in my home. I just went to the recent Pages and like it a lot - appleworks works on my MBP on intel and is quite fast but I am also going to switch over 100% to pages! I am actually in transition. neooffice loads very slow but it it nice. I tried and used to use it but i remember reading that there was support or development issues going on re: not happening or else the actual freeoffice ro whatever the parent app is does not support anythging with neooffice anymore so i stopped using it. I found some stsuff slow in neoooffcie due to it being run in Java.
If it was to be developed and ssupported more I would probably try using it. be careful of the various builds re: your OS too. i was using a panther build before and that was my introduction.
I am happy generally with pages. I need something that is as stable as I can get for business stuff.
Neooffice is somethin if it does take off again that I would consider. but slow load and sosmetimes i type and there is a lag before the characters emerge on the page.

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