A Mac may be "user" friendly...but they are not so music friendly. A friend got an old Pentium 600 dirt cheap to use for audio,bit torrent,etc as his powerbook was such a hassle and Mac audio software is either super high $,or second rate. The old pentium machine ran him $100,he spent $80 on a nice HD and all is well. He still uses the Mac for mobile stuff,some graphics.