If I could stay under $2000 for the two it would be great. But like I said don't want to low ball myself.
The majority of what we would be doing is homework, internet browsing, and email. We do have a ton of music on itunes on the desktop and a ton of photos. I need to organize them one day. I also want to be able to start uploading old videos I have to better save them. I bought a transfer thingy for the computer which works pretty good for transfering old tape videos to a computer file. I've used Windows basic Moviemaker with no problems before.
I've only know pc's so I guess there is that fear for change with a Mac and the price
Don't know if I could build my own... never done it before.