Bought a used MAC Book to learn the oS and other stuf. Fairly entry level mach. Played with it, kinda learned and liked it. Have a friend MAC. He helped me a lot. Sold it. I lost the $52 for the rAM.
Now getting ready to pull the trigger on either (Yes) IMac, or MB Pro. (The only thing I don't like about the Apple site is that the 'Buy Now' button really works.)
Looks like I will have to have XPPro on it. I am concerned about hard drive space. I will have IWork8 on it, some Photo Shop stuff (I don't remember the name but a friend of mine knows what I need. Also XP Pro SPX, and a few MS programs. Does Windows put a swap file on the XP partition? How big do I need to make that partition. I have another friend that just bought a MBPro. Dropped approx $4K on it. He went to put (Not boot whatever, the other one.)
The only reason I am considering a Laptop at all is that I plan to travel in a year or so, and the portability isn't needed immediately.
The IMac is the 24, 2.0, 2.4 with a 320 in it. This will prob be the last machine ever. The MB Pro is the 2.4 GHz, 15.4 inch, 2.0 RAM, and the rest is the same.
I would add RAM to either one. It actually made quite a diff in the basic MBook
Couple of other Q's. What are Widgets?
Be patient.l The only thing that have concerns are the HDD size. I did get a Seagate 500 GB external. MC had them for $129 for two hours. It was DOA. Just got it back. Going to connect to the Time Machine