"Best Effects Lost..."

iPhone runs OS X. iPod Touch runs OS X. I'm hoping to see an app. from Apple that will run keynote presentations from these devices. Maybe even 3rd party products for diff. video-out signals.

I remember a winMobile commercial showing a guy getting on a flight, checking nothing, showing to a meeting after landing, plugging in his mobile and running a presentation from there.

If we want to view the iPhone as a business tool, this would definitely be a useful avenue to take.

I use the MS office suite a lot, and I am the only Mac user in my company. I find that keynote has limited transitions compared to the MS .ppt I am using now. The MS .ppt has super transitions that I don't get on PC .ppt or Keynote.
One thing that does bug me though is, when creating a MS .ppt in Mac, often when you copy the file to/or email it to a PC user the "inserts", such as graphs, spreadsheets etc are all misaligned in some way.
The way to clear this is to double click the inserts in the PC file and then return to the .ppt. Generally this resizes the inserts to fit correctly.
If the new .ppt 2008 fixes this bug then I think it is well worth buying, as I do a lot of presentations. I'll test it out at the Apple shop. Anyone else have this issue?
Phil

I was disappointed that this review did not even mention the single most important feature of PowerPoint 2008 (although it may have been covered in other reviews of Office 2008), being the fact that the app is now Intel native.

I have a MacBook Pro with a 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, and 2 GB of RAM. With PowerPoint 2004, the Slide Sorter view was virtually useless on this machine, and the app in general was sluggish to the point of uselessness. Now it is as smooth as butter, I'm actually looking forward to writing my next presentation (something I've dreaded since the switch to Intel chips). This and many general performance boosts are primarily from the Intel native code.

danviento – the iPhone is not currently marketed as a business device. AT&T won't let you set up billing on a corporate account for iPhones (combining multiple accounts to simplify accounting), their reasoning is that it isn't a business device. They'll even try to tell you (on the salesfloor at their retail stores) that the iPhone can't be hooked up to your work email. While I suppose this may be true if you use MS Exchange server (I've never tried), it works just fine with any IMAP or POP based mail service.

I feel completely the opposite about Keynote. I have bought every version of the iWork applications from Keynote 1.0, and still have not been able to make the transition. I too am a scientist and feel that iWork lacks the tools I need like equation editors, and linear regression on Numbers. If you are making something cute with lots of annoying transitions, then Keynote is great, but building a technical/classroom presentation in Powerpoint seems easier. So much so that I have, on occasion, made the presentation in Powerpoint and imported it to Keynote because I use Profcast and there were problems between Profcast and PPT.

Our classrooms have windows machines, so it is often easier to take the PPt presentation in on a thumbdrive than mess around lugging, and connecting, the Powerbook to the classroom.

One of the best features of current presentation software is the presenter view where the audience see only the slide on the projector while the presenter see it "all" on his device (laptop), the slides, the time and his notes. I can't imagine doing this on a small screen like the iPhone, iPod Touch. This feature makes a speaker look like a pro, not having to deal with a bunch of paper notes. I would like to see a tablet Mac for this and its interaction with a pen.