Apple just refreshed their macbooks and made them $100 cheaper, you can find last years models for $200 cheaper on most websites.
Ever since apple made their numbers and pages free, microsoft has stepped up to the plate!
First off lets go over google's offering,
- Google Docs [Direct Link]
- Google Sheets [Direct Link]
Docs is a bare bones word processor, the only advantage is that you can still compose when there is no signal around.
Sheets is just as bad, you have to manually type in the forumals if you want them.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/mobile/
- Microsoft Word for iPad [Direct Link]
- Microsoft Excel for iPad [Direct Link]
- Microsoft PowerPoint for iPad [Direct Link]
- Microsoft OneNote for iPad [Direct Link]
Word, excel, and powerpoint have come to IOS, and if you have a 365 account, you can use it for free.
If you don't have a 365 account, you can still look around for free, and onenote is supposed to be free forever.
The biggest thing it did not have was printing when it came out, and microsoft just fixed that in the last week.
Iwork for the ipad is pretty good
http://www.apple.com/creativity-apps/mac/
but it still does not have all the features that microsoft has for their applications...
evernote just got a little better
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/evernote/id281796108?mt=8
partially because OneNote is out for IOS now. The major new features are business card scanning like Cardmunch, and audio recording.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-search/id284815942?mt=8
Siri works pretty good, but if you prefer google's offerings, then try google search, I prefer the google maps when searching for businesses especially.