[CGUYS] Buying First MAC

2007-09-10 Thread gerald
I am planning to purchase an iMac for my wife. I have only owned PC's since jobs was in the garage, and have a few hardware questions. we are getting this mainly because it fits well in the allocated space, and because my wife generates and edits dvd's and says her PC is very slow in this

Re: [CGUYS] Buying First MAC

2007-09-10 Thread Steve Rigby
On Sep 8, 2007, at 8:03 AM, gerald wrote: I am planning to purchase an iMac for my wife. I have only owned PC's since jobs was in the garage, and have a few hardware questions. we are getting this mainly because it fits well in the allocated space, and because my wife generates and edits

Re: [CGUYS] Buying First MAC

2007-09-10 Thread Constance Warner
Alan Carroll of macUpgrades in Bethesda supplies the following answer to these questions. (Disclosure: he's my husband. He does all my Mac tech support, which is very convenient.) --Constance Warner Subject: [CGUYS] Buying First MAC I am planning to purchase an iMac for my wife. I have

Re: [CGUYS] Buying First MAC

2007-09-10 Thread Mason Miller
I am planning to purchase an iMac for my wife. I have only owned PC's since jobs was in the garage, and have a few hardware questions. we are getting this mainly because it fits well in the allocated space, and because my wife generates and edits dvd's and says her PC is very slow in this

Re: [CGUYS] Buying First MAC

2007-09-10 Thread E. Riley Casey
Yes on the memory although for video editing I would suggest maxing it out , maybe, maybe not on the HD ( look here for some details : http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/systems/intel_imac_take-apart.html ) no on the video card. This is why when you go to a recording studio or a video editing house

Re: [CGUYS] Buying First MAC

2007-09-10 Thread Roger D. Parish
At 1:05 PM -0400 9/10/07, Constance Warner wrote: Alan Carroll of macUpgrades in Bethesda supplies the following answer to these questions. (Disclosure: he's my husband. He does all my Mac tech support, which is very convenient.) --Constance Warner Subject: [CGUYS] Buying First MAC I am

Re: [CGUYS] Buying First MAC

2007-09-10 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
If you need more hard drive space an external firewire hard drive is a less expensive way to go. On 9/8/07, gerald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am planning to purchase an iMac for my wife. I have only owned PC's since jobs was in the garage, and have a few hardware questions. we are getting

Re: [CGUYS] Subject: [CGUYS] Buying First MAC

2007-09-10 Thread Charles Ballinger
Ditto what Betty said. I very recently bought a MacBook Pro and had the same experience. I had also ordered the 4GB RAM kit from datamem and installed it in a snap. She will love the machine. My first Mac was a dual USB iBook some 7 years ago and we still use that machine everyday at

Re: [CGUYS] Subject: [CGUYS] Buying First MAC

2007-09-10 Thread Tom Piwowar
I just bought a MacBook; took it out of the box last night. A Mac [not MAC] has a setup program that runs when you first turn it on after taking it out of the box--my MacBook was fully charged w/3-4 hrs of power--just plug in the iMac. I set the location; it automatically set the time. I have