Dear All,
3 years ago I bought a laptop for my wife. It was her first experience of owning a computer and I became her 24 hour tech support line. (she even gets my secretary to hunt me down at work)
The laptop is on its last legs am I am now looking at getting MAC to replace the laptop.
She uses the laptop for web surfing (GENERALLY SHOPPING!) and loading music onto her ipod. As the children get older I want them to be comfortable with computers and my 8yr old is showing an interest in photography. Elements is installedon the laptop.
The specs of the laptop are:-
AMD Turion 64 ML-37 processor: 2GHz, 64KB L1 Cache, 1MB L2 Cache
- ATI Radeon Xpress 200P chipset with Mobility Radeon X700 GPU and 128MB video memory
- 1GB DDR333 SO-DIMM (2x 512MB),
- 15.4" WSXGA+ TFT LCD display (1680 x 1050 resolution)
- Broadcom (802.11b+g) wifi, Gigabit wired Ethernet LAN, Bluetooth
- 2.5" Ultra DMA 66/100, 100GB (5400rpm) hard drive
- 8x DVD-RW/CD-RW slot loading combo drive (Panasonic Model: UJ-845-C)
- Audio AC'97 2.2, built-in dual speakers and microphone, speaker/headphone
So here are my questions:-
1. Would you recommend a mini plus a £200 screen or the cheapest IMAC?
2. Will the best mini be faster or slower than the laptop we have now?
3. Her itunes music folder is 13GB. Can I just copy it onto a external drive and then connect that drive to the mini and do the same in reverse?
Thanks for any help
Josh
3 years ago I bought a laptop for my wife. It was her first experience of owning a computer and I became her 24 hour tech support line. (she even gets my secretary to hunt me down at work)
The laptop is on its last legs am I am now looking at getting MAC to replace the laptop.
She uses the laptop for web surfing (GENERALLY SHOPPING!) and loading music onto her ipod. As the children get older I want them to be comfortable with computers and my 8yr old is showing an interest in photography. Elements is installedon the laptop.
The specs of the laptop are:-
AMD Turion 64 ML-37 processor: 2GHz, 64KB L1 Cache, 1MB L2 Cache
- ATI Radeon Xpress 200P chipset with Mobility Radeon X700 GPU and 128MB video memory
- 1GB DDR333 SO-DIMM (2x 512MB),
- 15.4" WSXGA+ TFT LCD display (1680 x 1050 resolution)
- Broadcom (802.11b+g) wifi, Gigabit wired Ethernet LAN, Bluetooth
- 2.5" Ultra DMA 66/100, 100GB (5400rpm) hard drive
- 8x DVD-RW/CD-RW slot loading combo drive (Panasonic Model: UJ-845-C)
- Audio AC'97 2.2, built-in dual speakers and microphone, speaker/headphone
So here are my questions:-
1. Would you recommend a mini plus a £200 screen or the cheapest IMAC?
2. Will the best mini be faster or slower than the laptop we have now?
3. Her itunes music folder is 13GB. Can I just copy it onto a external drive and then connect that drive to the mini and do the same in reverse?
Thanks for any help
Josh