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mittens
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I'm graduating from high school next week and I'll be off to college next fall. My mom has agreed to match what ever I can pay towards a new computer. Right now I have $800 (USD) that I can spend on it so together with my moms money thats $1600 that I have to spend.
I am totally set on getting a mac. I've been with windows my whole life and just can't take it anymore - popups, spyware, lag, poor UI - it's just been too long that I've dealt with it and these past couple months I've just really been jealous of mac users.
Anyways my question is what mac do you think i should get thats in the $1600 dollar range. Should I wait untill the fall to get my computer so that I will have some more money saved up? I could probaly have about $1200 saved by the end of the summer. So that would be $2400 to spend. When are the new models of macs released? Can I use my 21" CRT monitor from my windows PC with a mac or do have have to buy another one?
I need something that can multi-task pretty well - many times i have dreamweaver, flash, photoshop, FTP client, and a browser open at the same time. I would also like to start editing videos.
I probaly should not be saying this but...another question that I have is what kind of P2P clients are available for the mac. Are they any good? Seeing that I'm pretty young and money is tight, I usually get my programs like photoshop and illustrator from these types of networks. Would I still be able to do this on a mac or would I loose that ability.
I am totally set on getting a mac. I've been with windows my whole life and just can't take it anymore - popups, spyware, lag, poor UI - it's just been too long that I've dealt with it and these past couple months I've just really been jealous of mac users.
Anyways my question is what mac do you think i should get thats in the $1600 dollar range. Should I wait untill the fall to get my computer so that I will have some more money saved up? I could probaly have about $1200 saved by the end of the summer. So that would be $2400 to spend. When are the new models of macs released? Can I use my 21" CRT monitor from my windows PC with a mac or do have have to buy another one?
I need something that can multi-task pretty well - many times i have dreamweaver, flash, photoshop, FTP client, and a browser open at the same time. I would also like to start editing videos.
I probaly should not be saying this but...another question that I have is what kind of P2P clients are available for the mac. Are they any good? Seeing that I'm pretty young and money is tight, I usually get my programs like photoshop and illustrator from these types of networks. Would I still be able to do this on a mac or would I loose that ability.