I think my dad would want to stick with a windows based PC.

His PC skills are ok, thats all. I am the 'pro' of the house as it were.

 

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.

 

I see your point.

I'll get mine and let him have a play and go from there.

thanks all for your help

 

one iMac 24" ordered

not sure what to do with my old Dell now. Some of the parts are sellable I think?

 

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.

 

My Lacie hdd that I have with all my work on,will I need to do anything for it to work on the mac as it did on my dell.