Technical question -please tell me I haven't made a big mistake

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I have a new mac (first time with a mac) arriving tomorrow. Obviously this has cost quite a lot of money and I'm looking forward to using an efficient machine to do all my mountains of work.

Now I'm having a last minute panic. Please reassure me! I will be able to use activinspire flipcharts I've created on a windows PC on it, won't I? And more importantly, I will be able to use any flipcharts I create on the mac on the school windows PC, won't I?

Also, does anyone know, does the disk for installing inspire work on both pcs and macs or will I need to get a different disk?

All advice and experience greatly received.

Did you ask about this when you bought the Mac?

I don't use IWB so am not sure whether your resources will transfer from one to the other - what do your tech people at school say?

Well... I asked the tech guy at school and he said it should be fine... But I was just talking to a colleague and he said he thought it would be a big PITA. So really I'm not sure, which is why I'm having a little panic.

I use a Mac at home and nasty Windows at work. For years I wanted a Mac but, like you, worried about compatability. I used to have a smartboard but now just have a projector and whiteboard so that's not an issue. I have MS Office on my Mac and use Powerpoint, Word and Excel. It's a pain that I can't use OneNote.

Sometimes, things look different when I open them at work but not often now. On this page, it looks at if activinspire is cross-platform: support.prometheanplanet.com/server.php?show=nav.29751&changeCountry=United+Kingdom You would almost certainly need different discs for programs, but can often download programs from websites.

I love my Macbook and wouldn't go back.

Cynderella thanks for that. It has arrived and I've managed to download ActivInspire and had a play, but haven't needed to use anything new from the Mac on the system at work yet, so don't know how things will transfer across.

As far as having a machine for me, though, I love it! Let's hope it stays that way