[Dottore]

Get the iMac.

I have used PC's and Mac's for going on 20 years. Always hated PC's - but had to use them for work. Always loved Mac's, and now that I am self-employed I wouldn't touch another PC with a barge pole.

Mac's are much better machines on every level - particularly for the applications you seem to have in mind. There are numerous threads on this already if you check around.

And don't listen to the one or two neo-cons on this board who will inevitably tell you to go with a PC. They can't be trusted - as we well know. ;-)

(Had to get some politics in here.)