PowerMac in '96, MacBook in '06

The last Mac I bought was a PowerMac 7500 in 1996 with a 100 MHZ 601 powerpc cpu and 16MB RAM for £1500 (no monitor). (Previous to this I owned a Performa 400 (a.k.a. LC II) with a 16 MHz 68030 CPU and 4MB RAM which cost £900.)

Ten years later and I have returned to the 'bright' side and bought a MacBook. My Macbook has core duo intel chips running at 2GHz with 512MB RAM with monitor (13.3") for £899 which is really quite an awesome box. I opted for this particualr model as I felt it had the right balance of features for the price, the most significant is the superdrive which the 1.83 Ghz model lacks (off the shelf) and I could not justify the extra money (£129) for a paint job and an extra 20GB Hard Disk which is what you get if you opt for the black model. Really neat touches include the MagSafe power adaptor and the iSight camera.

I am currently familiarising myself with the iLife software suite...