[jyl]

I thought iMac 27" too, but she doesn't want a desktop right now. Her room in a shared house at college is tiny, her desk is even tinier, she doesn't have space for a desktop, and her room is really cold - so she does most of her work in libraries or coffee shops. So she's very much a laptop person at this stage in life. If it turns out she needs a big monitor, we can always get her an external one.

As for Mac vs PC, I'm mostly a Mac person now. I use Windows at work and in a Parallels VM on my MacBook Pro. But if I have to be her tech support, I'd rather she be on a Mac . . .