But in all honesty, how many average home users will ‘upgrade’ their machines? You buy a computer, use it until it get’s slow, relative to the new software you might bung on it, and then you probbly replace. Granted, you can change things like processors on PCs, quite easily, but you might as well get a new MB anyway, and take advantage of the faster speed of that board, which will probbly allow faster RAM etc.
I was thinking of replacing my Pentium D 3.4GHz processor in my PC, but it’s not a great deal more to replace the MB as well. And my current MB won’t be able to take full advantage of the faster speed anyway, and uses a slower type RAM.
The truth is, that Apple make products for people who don’t want or need to have to get to grips with all the ins and outs of computers, they simply need it to do the tasks they want. Like emialing, sirfing, photo organising, playing movies, music, etc.
Apple make fantastic products for that purpose. I’d reckon, based on my own experience, that an Apple Mac would suit the OPs needs, perfectly.