I need to buy a new computer. Please find me one, I know nothing!!!!!

[BusyBeeWithThree]

I use it for internet, word, itunes and photos. That's basically it!!!! Our computer that is now broken is four years old so anything you can buy now is far better. Any advice you have would be so helpful....thanks in advance.

Apple Mac - slightly bit more pricey but they come with all the basics on that you use. Have a version of Word that is much easier on a Mac - IMO.

Also - which is good. They have a good sleep mode which means you only have to press a button and it goes to sleeps and doesn't lose anything - press another button and it all comes back again.

go have a look around an apple store, they'll show you all the computers and they have fantastic after sale service. Also when you take the computer out of the box and turn it on that is pretty much it. It'll work straight away.

Have found Mac's last for longer than PC's - seem to be less to go wrong and if something does go wrong Apple are quick to fix.

Would definitely recommend a MacBook too - does everything you want it to, very beautifully and efficiently.

Agree, definitely a Mac.

I've not much experience but have got a Dell, it's been great for about 3 years now.

Bit cheaper than an Apple maybe?

Pentium processor better than the other one - celeron or something? - but mine has the latter and is fine. I don't do gaming or anything much, just browsing and email and pictures.

Do you have trouble getting certain things to work with a mac? It has different settings for stuff, right? Sorry to be dim!

Mac is really quite simple - striaghtforward symbols for everything. I have a Word/Excel Package for AppleMacs on mine which works great and can send stuff to anyone else without a problem.

Also on mine i've got the following ATM - widgets (can put notes, music, loads of fun things but useful), iChat, Address Book,iCal, iTunes, iPhoto,iWeb, Pages, Word, Excel,Calculator, iDVD,Photo Booth. There are many more things as well that you can add to.

Whatever you plug in whether it is printer or camera. You don't have to look for it on the computer, it just finds it all for you and takes you to it.

We have MacBooks and a Apple Computer and they are both great. The only thing I found odd to start off with is the @ button is in a different place. Everything else is the same.

I've never had a problem with anything on the web etc. i'm a world of warcraft addict and use that lots and games are really easy to.

Thanks

Just to set your expectations, it's not all 'the same' - if you're really used to using windows, things are in different places on the mac as it's a different operating system. but you will adjust and find it easier to use after a while - it's just you have to unlearn the stupid things that windows make you do, like pressing 'start' to shut down the computer! It helps if you know someone with a mac so you can ask silly questions like 'how do you uninstall an application?' (answer is to drag it to the rubbish bin )

Mac, for sure. DH got bought a macbook for christmas by his mother christmas before last. Best present i he has ever been bought imo! (i use it more than he, in fact I am using it now, he uses my desktop!).

if and when we need new desktop, we will buy mac for that too.

See i am good on kettles
i am rubbish on computers

The thing I love about this computer, is that it is pretty clever. It does things for you, like photos, put a cable into it, photos go straight into the right place. I like Spaces to do different things at the same time. So you can download a film or something in one 'space' and while it is doing it, you can watch a film on another 'space'. I like the remote access files so you can back everything up elsewhere so if it breaks you have not lost everything and don't have to fret about where that disk is with your lifes worth of pictures is. I like the way the power supply is magnetic! (sad emoticon)

I did not like the fact that it blew up on me last year, but did like the fact that Apple repaired it quickly without any fuss under warranty and couriered it back to us from Exeter as we live in plymouth and its a hour journey each way (we dealt with shop direct, not telephone customer service, much better this way).

Thanks everyone.