Uchtite chto s MSOffice tam - Testdrive.
AFAIK iBook has AppleWorks installed, but PowerBook doesn't
There is also OpenOffice, but that seems more like a hemorroid...
Glavnyj podvodnyj kamen' - babki za soft.
Tot chto idet s OS pochti vsegda ne soderzhit nekotoryh melochej. Naprimer QuichTime ne umeet full screen play (za tak, za den'gi - umeet).
Vyhoda dva - bashlyat' ili imet' sex s freeware or/and s piratskimi kopiyami/lomalkami etc.
Ya poka obhozhus' Freeware, poskol'ku iznachal'no rassmatrival ego kak igrushku.
Esche odna meloch - klavishi ochen' krasivye. Zhalko ih urodoval' vsyakimi naklejkami etc...
A glavnoe - zapasites' terpeniem. Ochen' mnogie veschi sdelany sil'no po-drugomu chem v Windows, KDE. Inogda kazhetsya chto glavnaya cel' takih nesovmestimostej - to piss off BG.
BTW, znanie Unix sil'no pomogaet. pochti vse mozhno sdelat' rukami, prichem ne lomaya UI.