Planning to buy my first Apple/Mac Computer

[fryke]

Yes, esquilinho. That's how it works. You simply _ignore_ that it's an intel Mac. (Isn't Apple great?)

[Esquilinho]

Originally Posted by speXedy

What is Virtual PC? I really don't understand the consept behind any program like Bootcamp? can someone explain in detail? Thanks (sorry for such newbie question)

Bootcamp is what allows the mac to run Windows. It's like when you have a PC and you make a partition for windows and another one for say Linux. On the mac, you can do the same with OSX and windows, but you need Bootcamp to "support" it. This means you need to reboot when you want to change systems.

Virtual PC is an application that allows you to emulate the windows environment and its programs within OSX, without having to leave OSX.

[Esquilinho]

Originally Posted by fryke

Yes, esquilinho. That's how it works. You simply _ignore_ that it's an intel Mac. (Isn't Apple great?)

Waw! Yeah! Love it!

[sgould]

Am I right?
Bootcamp and Parallels only run on the new Intel Mac. They don't run on the iMac. You need the Virtual PC emulator to run Windows stuff on an iMac.

[speXedy]

Well the new iMacs ARE intel, so i dunno, but what do I know? I don't even own one, and all this talk is confusing me even more, but it seames, that whatever happens is behind the scenes. well for the emulator. but eh i dunno!! AHH hehe.

[speXedy]

I have been looking on apple.com a lot at the 20" Intel iMacs and I think I know the system I am going to buy this:
20-inch
2GHz Intel Core Duo
I am going to be using it mainly for Photoshop so I am going to either start off with the full 2GBs of DDR2 SDRAM or have just the 1GB DDR2 SDRAM and upgrade to two later. I am going to try my best to start off with two. (is two as big as you can go?)
As for the Hard Drive ... I think 250GBs would be big enough but if I start doing video editing I might want to 500GB ... So I might upgrade that too, depending on my money situation. Any suggestions there? I could always just buy an external hard drive.
As for the Graphics Memory Card for the small $68 dollar upgrade I might as well, I might play some 3D games, and a guy at Apple said it would help render time within Photoshop, so I think I'll upgrade that to the 256mb.
I have no need for the modem
I have no need for any of that Apple Software
I want to have as little cords as possible le so for the $54 dollars I am going to get the Wireless keyboard and mouse (are they mighty mouse?)
And I am def getting the Apple Care Protection Plan.

Is there anything else I should add-on or de-add on?
I think I am starting to get a good grip as to what I want.

[Ferdinand]

Looks good - but I am quite sure that only the PowerMac can go up to 500 GB HD. Dont think the iMac can.
Ferdinand

PS: Yeah, the wireless mouse is a normal mouse, but you can choose that its the Mighty Mouse. But no extra costs, so with ot without Mighty-Mouse, the price stays the same.

[speXedy]

Originally Posted by Ferdinand

Looks good - but I am quite sure that only the PowerMac can go up to 500 GB HD. Dont think the iMac can.

if you go to www.apple.com and go to the store click the 20" imac you can upgrade it ... so im not sure.