For text printout, there is no significant, noticable difference. For graphics intensive work like multimedia, the number of gray levels a 600 dpi printer supports is very distinguishable. For creating quality multimedia programs, Macromedia's Director is the most popular and powerful tool of choice. Director can let you make your multimedia project as a standalone executable, so your multimedia projects developed can be distributed. Both platform use the same file format.
Director is sufficient for most multimedia courseware authoring works.
In order to make modifications to them, a copy of Multimedia Toolbook is required. Hardware and software needed for creating Web documents are basically the same as the ones for multimedia presentation development. Since Microsoft Office is going to be bundled with the faculties' machines, Microsoft Word 6.0c is included in the suite. A free Word add-on, Internet Assistant, is available from Microsoft for creating HTML documents within Word.