The Mac at the web site you linked to appears to have 2G RAM. Plenty
unless you it will be doing some kind of heavy graphics lifting.
If I were you I would lean towards Parallels rather than have to reboot
to switch. That is of course unless you are thinking of not using OS X
at all.
I would stick with Tiger for now and worry about Leopard in a few
months. Tiger works very well! If you want to have Leopard, consider
buying from Apple. Somehow I feel that the Macs from Apple are more set
up than from other vendors, and the computer will come with Leopard.
If you haven't had a laptop and/or will go places with it a lot, the
Applecare Protection Plan is a good service.
You can get very small boxes that will multiply your USB ports for you.
It's not a big deal. You can daisy chain Firewire, so that's not an issue.
Just thought I'd throw in my views.
Gosh, so many replies about serial ports and floppy drives on
laptops.
I'm thinking of buying a Mac PowerBook Pro (college daughter bought
one and loves it), but I am a Windows person and don't know how to
select and I've never had a laptop. The one that I am considering is
a 15.4" screen, 2.2 GHz Intel processor, 1 GB memory, sells for
$2000 but available at a discount for $1800. Questions:
1. What is the best software that emulates Windows on a Mac? Or, is
it
better to install Windows as a partition? I need this because of the
very many Windows applications that I have.
2. The discounted $1800 notebook is advertised with the OS Tiger,
not Leopard. How important is the latter OS?
3. How expandable is the memory and/or disk drive? I'm used to
having 1.5 TB disk space, so 120 GB internal is very small. Is 1 GB
memory adequate?
4. How many ports? (My desktop has 16 USB ports and 5 IEEE ports,
and all are used. Of course, I know that a laptop will not need so
many.)
5. Should I buy "drop" insurance -- i.e., insurance for repair if I
drop it or run over it with my car?
6. Other advice?
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