My HP pavilion is starting to show it's age. It hardly has the power to perform two tasks at once. It's time for a new machine.

After having a Vista PC at work I can hardly stand the thought of using a machine with this horrible OS on it. In fact I had a ticket from Sam's club to purchase what looked like a really good machine 2.4, 4 gig ram, 512 video memory, 350HD, in my hands and couldn't stomach the thought of Vista and put it back.

This has me leaning toward a mac. Thing is, I don't know anything about them except that most people that have them love them, and most people that have them don't really know a whole hell of a lot about them.

In my research into Macs, I notice as a rule they don't have as much RAM as a top of the line PC and they cost a lot more.

I am currently looking at a MacBook Pro 2.4, 2 gig ram, 256 video memory, 200HD or 2.5, 2 gig ram, 512 video memory, 250HD. They both cost a lot more than a PC does with the latter costing $400 more than the former with marginal increases. I guess I am looking for someone to tell me more about the differences in processors and how much will doubling my video memory will do. I know nothing of how a Mac works.