[Levi]

I have narrowed my mac choice down to either the 1099 dollar emac with a combo drive a 40 gig hardrive, or the 1499 emac with super drive and 80 gig hard drive... I will be using my mac for alot of video editng with my camcorder...are these good choices if im on a budget, and if is is it worth buying the more expensive emac or would it be a better idea to purchase an external dvd burner??? HELP
thanks for your input

[d00d]

Are you in a country other than the US? I see two eMac models with specs you seem to describe, but they're 799 and 1099 respectively. If you want to use iDVD, get the Superdrive model. As far as I know, iDVD doesn't work with external DVD writers.

[Levi]

Yeh i live in canada and thats how much the emacs are here.. i was also reading about some education discount on the apple.ca site. My dad is a teacher at the georgain college which is one of the participating school.. but while reading i couldnt find how much of a discount on an emac i would get.. does anyone know?

[d00d]

It'll take some digging, but starting at the Apple.ca site: click the Store link, click on the Education interest, continue clicking appropriate links until you reach the alternate Apple Store.

[jasondudley]

If you are going to be editing video, go with the higher end model. The bigger hard drive will be nice and having a Superdrive will definitely make everything easier (rather than going with an external drive later).

[roseboy]

I have the 40 gb model that I bought about a year ago. I would recommend that for what you are going to be doing that you get the 80 gb superdrive model. I am at the point where I am going to need an external drive soon. I would also suggest that you max out the RAM.