Mac buying help!

[stolari]

Hello all

Sorry for starting yet another 'what should i buy' threads but its my first post about my first mac and i could do with a hand.

I am trying to decide between a macbook or an imac (would love a MBP - but can't afford it/justify it to my fiance!).

The portability of a MB would be great but the extra power of an imac is tempting. I will mainly be using it for light office work, essays/presentations, surfing and possibly making podcasts (though nothing to heavy).

I realise i can't use games on a MB but thats not a huge issue, but would a MB with 2GB be able to dual boot with windows xp in bootcamp and run fast rather than choke ?

Thanks for any help, and again sorry about the newbie questions!

 

[Sky Blue]

A MacBook w/ 2GB RAM would have no problems with XP.

 

[myeggsareboiled]

Macbook!

The macbook will handle all that and plenty more. Bootcamp runs windows at native speed so there should be no issues there either. I personally would go for the macBook. Laptops are so much handier.

 

[stolari]

Thanks for that guys,

I am going to buy a MB tomorrow, I decided to get the base model and 4gb ram (3rd party - bloody hell are apple pricey!).I was just wondering if there are any MAC only downloads, apps, widgets etc that are cool that i may have missed in the last few (PC only) years that you would say are a great download to get me started back in mac land ?

 

[nosey313]

I was just wondering if there are any MAC only downloads, apps, widgets etc that are cool that i may have missed in the last few (PC only) years that you would say are a great download to get me started back in mac land ?

Try here.

 

[stolari]

Cheers nosey,

Sorry about that I should have done a search but I'm really excited about getting it (very sad i know)🙂 I feel like a kid at christmas - theres got to be something wrong with a grown man feeling like this over a computer!!

 

[nosey313]

I feel like a kid at christmas - theres got to be something wrong with a grown man feeling like this over a computer!!

Nothing wrong with that at all.🙂 Even with the minimal amount of dissatisfied customers and minimal defective products, the experience Apple provides is light years ahead of any other consumer electronics company. I'll never buy a PC again!

 

[stolari]

Hello,

Just to let you know i'm writing this on my new macbook - its fantastic. Cheers for the help guys i'm very happy with my choice (though i almost went for an imac AS WELL - she'd have killed me😀). Thanks again.