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Does MacBook Air come with word processing software?

I love how portable and light the MacBook Air looks and I'd like to buy one. The main things I will be using it for are: word processing, web, email.

1. Does the MacBook Air come with a word processing program of any sort?

2. If I were to install Microsoft Word onto the laptop, would it slow it down considerably? (Word is what I'm using now on my old laptop)

Paula

Posted on Jan 11, 2011 5:27 AM

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Jeff Greenberg

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Posted on Jan 11, 2011 9:54 AM

Writer1111 wrote:
I love how portable and light the MacBook Air looks and I'd like to buy one. The main things I will be using it for are: word processing, web, email.

1. Does the MacBook Air come with a word processing program of any sort?

2. If I were to install Microsoft Word onto the laptop, would it slow it down considerably? (Word is what I'm using now on my old laptop)

Paula

1) no but you can buy Pages from the mac App Store for $10. This is a better solution than Word for most users.

2) If your version of Word is recent (2008 or 2010) it won't slow down the MBA any more than is typical for Office. If you are running the older Office 2004 products you will see performance loss because of the Rosetta interpreter.