Well I haven't really wanted to get a real working mac computer for quite some time because even if I liked them more than PC's, I couldn't afford an office full of them. Despite this fact I think I need to start getting into the MAC world a bit more. It will definitely be a core2duo imac if I get one. I want to be able to dual boot with Windows for sure. I don't really like the mac OS very well and I want to be able to actually use the computer. For $850 I can get a white Imac with a 2.16ghz Intel Core2Duo processor, 3gb DDR2 667mhz ram, and a 250gb hard drive. It will be a HUGE 24" screen. I won't buy one of those pieces of crap with little 17" screens. It's worth a few hundred more to get a decent sized screen. Since the smallest screen I work on now is a 19" and ALL my other monitors are 22" or larger, getting a 17" Imac would NOT be a good idea. I'd go crazy with such a small screen.
I'm debating whether to get the white Imac or the aluminum series. I like the aluminum series look A LOT more, but the computer would most likely go to mom once I'm done experimenting with it so I think I'd better go with the white one since she'd like that a lot more than the aluminum one. On the other hand I don't really want to spend all this money on a stupid mac that won't really get me anywhere anyways. Even running Windows I still couldn't really work with it and for that price I could get a really nice Core2Quad PC with 8gb of ram and a 24" monitor. I don't know what to do. I don't have the money to go blow on old macs to experiment with. With a mac if I screw something up I just lost at least $500. This is why I started with PC's. I was able to get them for $5 apiece at garage sales and such. Even 10 year old garbage macs are still like $75 and mac hardware changes too much to be able to learn from old stuff like that.
I don't know. I'm debating getting a mac to experiment on, but I don't know if I actually will. It's just a lot of money and I don't know that I'll get anything from it other than a little bit of fun messing around with something I don't have much experience with.