My hunch is that you are going to find that setting up your Mac PC is much easier and more reliable than with a WinTel PC. I know very little about PCs, and have often been helped by others on this forum -- thanks, Gents!! For Christmas I bought my wife the basic Mac laptop, and was able to setup up everything for her without visiting a single forum or making a single call for technical support, and I am not a Mac user. To test it, I visited several web sites including this forum to make certain the photos and videos would work. To enable viewing of Windows media formats, I downloaded the addendum to QuickTime from MS's site. To my surprise, when looking for a PPT viewer, MS has posted through their on-line technicians a recommendation that Mac owners download OpenOffice which I did, along with RealPlayer. So far, no issues or problems, except that MS prepared PPT slide shows with synchronized sound lose that sound track when played using the Impress viewer within OpenOffice. Several of the internet videos I test viewed had a higher resolution display on her Mac than on my Dell PC, both of which have Intel Core Duo processors.
Dave R.