Hi,
I run an Apple MacBook and a PowerBook and would recommend any potential buyer to take out the extended warranty on any Apple laptop
as, whilst beautiful designs and intuitive to use, their reliability is very
much open to question and when your local Mac centre charges £50 to
give an estimate (if your machine is out of warranty) and the backlight
has failed and they want £500 for the part and labour you'll see my point!
If you do buy an Apple machine I wouldrecommend the Neo alternative to
MS Word/Excel etc.
www.neooffice.org - it's free and very easy to use.
As an aside - I've just bought an Asus eee 701b laptop. 2 Gig memory but
you can buy the 4 Gig model. Around £210 - £220 including vat which is a great price for a marvellous piece of kit. Misco.co.uk sell then in the UK and also dabs.com.
Good luck,
mm