I am having the hardest time trying to buy a new computer. I love macs, I am a designer come on. But a few years back I had to switch to a PC and have now pretty much made the switch completely. I had a pretty hard time with organizing my files at first it was odd, a bit like after you move houses or cities and I could not find anything and everything seemed totally unorganized, though after a while I got used to it.

The family computer, an original bondi imac 233, was co-oped by the wife who now uses it for her work but it is showing its age, maxed at 128mb RAM and a new 40gb hard drive, up from the original 4GB! Can you believe they put 4GB drives in computers :) So it is getting slow and slower, and will not run the pretty new OS X, and overall we need a new family computer. She wants a mac. She needs Photoshop, Freehand, Dreamweaver and Office. For Mac. I need all the same apps for the PC. Mucho dinero dog.

So anyway, what do you buy? I want a 12" powerbook, she is cool with that, I mean if you buy a desktop you can never make it a portable, no you can't nerd. But if you buy laptop you can always make it a desktop. We don't need no G5 anyway. But I read that the G4 as not all that much better than the G3 for non-altivec inhanced apps. And there is only $250 between the 12" G3 iBook and the 12" G4 powerbook...

Then there is the iMac and eMac. Both great machines it seems to me thought the eMac is a huge thing to put on your desktop, you can pick up a 1GHz G4 for $999 monitor attached, CDRW, 17" screen, granded it needs more RAM, but respectable deal. And the iMac at $1799 better graphics card, better footprint, more RAM and such, but still not expandable and $800 more, for esentailly the same thing.

In the end I guess I am waiting to get a newly reved 15" AiPb if they come out with one here b4 the end of the month, but geez then there will be deals on this round of TiBooks, what am I gonna do?...