Thanks for the link, Garg. Good stuff. Re one of the points Mossberg makes:

"All Macs come with at least one gigabyte of memory... If you can, get two gigabytes. Apple charges a lot for extra memory, but you can buy it for less at stores and online providers."

I read somewhere in my recent trawling through the discussions on the Apple forum (someone correct me if I'm remembering this wrong - the original source is some web page I saw days ago so I can't check it) that if you want to upgrade your memory to 2gb, you ought to get two memory sticks of 1 gig each, not one memory stick of 2 gig. This is apparently to do with the fact that you shouldn't leave any empty memory slots.

As the 1-gig Macs are structured to take two - presumably - 512mb sticks rather than a single 1gb one, it means having to buy TWO new sticks, not just an additional one, which is something of a bummer. But if you want a VM programme, as I do, there seems no choice. Mossberg's suggestion of buying them from an online source seems a good one - or is this one of those beware-budget-quality situations?

Anybody feel like editing a Mac Permathread? ;-)