okay have took the first step and have invested in an old imac 
always hated apple for a long long time but then as a person i became more open minded, purchased an iphone and love it to bits, its superb. if all goes well i plan to purchase a macbook in the summer.
am very excited for it to come, this is the one that i have bought:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....m=250219155716&ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT&ih=015
anyway it comes with 10.3 os (panther?) and i plan to upgrade to tiger OS.(1)
also i need some software, i have 0ffice 04 which i will try but i also want ilife as that seems to have alot of the main programs. my machine doesnt meet the minimum specs for ilife04. (2)
i also wold like to use it as possibly a music machine, would it be easy to either add an additional hard drive or replace the exsisting one with like a 160gb ide?(i have a spare lying around)
also im looking at one of those books "the missing manual" which is a book designed for people making the switch and its the leopard edition aswel which is good, does anyone have any expirience with this? i think i might get it anyway because i dont know how to do so many things and a book would be helpfull.
sorry for the long post, would greatly appreciate any replys.
1st question: should i just get hold on tiger on CD and install? is there anything special i should do?
2nd question: where can i get hold of the orgional ilife? apparently it was a free download on the apple site but i assume they dont host it anymore.
3rd question: can i replace or add an additonal hard drive (160gb ide)
4th question: missing manual (making the switch to tiger) book, any comments on it?
5th question: anything else you can say or reccomend? im not actually sure what i can do with a mac, im a happy windows xp user and i dont see me making "the switch" anytime soon, but i am open minded and would love Mac OS to be so good that i did switch.
right sorry for the long post, worried that everyones just going to ignore me now.
always hated apple for a long long time but then as a person i became more open minded, purchased an iphone and love it to bits, its superb. if all goes well i plan to purchase a macbook in the summer.
am very excited for it to come, this is the one that i have bought:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....m=250219155716&ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT&ih=015
anyway it comes with 10.3 os (panther?) and i plan to upgrade to tiger OS.(1)
also i need some software, i have 0ffice 04 which i will try but i also want ilife as that seems to have alot of the main programs. my machine doesnt meet the minimum specs for ilife04. (2)
i also wold like to use it as possibly a music machine, would it be easy to either add an additional hard drive or replace the exsisting one with like a 160gb ide?(i have a spare lying around)
also im looking at one of those books "the missing manual" which is a book designed for people making the switch and its the leopard edition aswel which is good, does anyone have any expirience with this? i think i might get it anyway because i dont know how to do so many things and a book would be helpfull.
sorry for the long post, would greatly appreciate any replys.
1st question: should i just get hold on tiger on CD and install? is there anything special i should do?
2nd question: where can i get hold of the orgional ilife? apparently it was a free download on the apple site but i assume they dont host it anymore.
3rd question: can i replace or add an additonal hard drive (160gb ide)
4th question: missing manual (making the switch to tiger) book, any comments on it?
5th question: anything else you can say or reccomend? im not actually sure what i can do with a mac, im a happy windows xp user and i dont see me making "the switch" anytime soon, but i am open minded and would love Mac OS to be so good that i did switch.
right sorry for the long post, worried that everyones just going to ignore me now.