OpenOffice works pretty well on my Macintosh. At least it doesn't crash like "real" office did using NT.

[OTOH, I haven't had a MS Office crash since we switched to XP at work. I do get disconcertingly frequent crashes with ERDAS and ArcMap--programs on which I depend for a paycheck.]

FYI. Macs are now Unix boxes with a clever interface. Om the Mac, you gotta peel a heck of a lot of onion skins to get to SU. But its in there. Don't tell your inquisitive, bright teenager about SU or you will be totally screwed.