Originally Posted by Mark Elberson
If you just want to open and read the occasional .doc or .xls file you get via email, iWork will be fine. In fact (unless you've already ordered it preinstalled), you might not even need iWork if you'll only open the occasional file.
One note on OpenOffice - running it requires installation of X11 (one of the custom installation options, primarily intended for software developers or others who need to run X-Windows based apps). For a different freeware alternative, you might look at NeoOffice - that's based on OpenOffice, but is a Mac-native app (since OpenOffice is open-source, the folks at NeoOffice took the source code and ported it to Mac OS X).
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