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darren, that is the point that us mac users try to hammmer home, a pc user finds it soooo easy moving to a mac (and as markus said you can always boot camp it for xp if he hates it ).
but if he is a dyed in the wool pc user, then a lowish end PC should do him fine.
If you're not going to use it, and depending on the size of the hard drive, you could put it into an external USB/Firewire enclosure and then use it as additional storage on the Mac (ideally you'd want to reformat it using Disk Utility on the mac)
If you're not going to use it, and depending on the size of the hard drive, you could put it into an external USB/Firewire enclosure and then use it as additional storage on the Mac (ideally you'd want to reformat it using Disk Utility on the mac)
I already have a Lacie 320 external.
The two hard drives I have are a 120gb Seagate Barracuda and the other is a 80gb, the new one.