In fact, there are no menu items at all except Services (which don't work), Hide, and Quit. ![]() Not long after starting the app, I looked for preferences. Unfortunately, that is only the sad beginning to the "user interface" of the OED on the Mac. Have you ever seen an uglier icon? Have you ever seen an uglier icon for a $300 Mac application?īy subscribing, you are agreeing to Engadget's Terms and Privacy Policy. If there was a way to emphasize the quotation marks around the word "native" I would do so, because as I quickly learned, the OED puts the "ugly" in "butt ugly Windows port." The image you see above is the application icon. The CD-ROM lists itself as "version 4" but this is the first version to be "native" on the Mac. (I should probably note that Mac OS X comes with the "New Oxford American Dictionary" which is not the same thing as the OED, despite the similar sounding name.) But a CD-ROM? That doesn't take up any space at all, and it's at a fraction of the price! ![]() Since I am-and hope to remain-married, I did not even consider spending $1000 on the complete 20 volume set (for very long). The printed version of the two-volume Shorter Oxford English Dictionary sells for $350, The Compact Oxford English Dictionary "in slipcase with reading glass" sells for $400, and the 20 volume complete dictionary set sells for $995. ![]() Due to Amazon's "pre-order price guarantee" the final price was just under $200. Upon learning that the Oxford English Dictionary was going to be released on CD-ROM for the Mac, I pre-ordered it from for $244 back in December (list price $295, currently $212).
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