business planning software mac

business planning software mac
Macbook..what should i do?

okay, i want to buy a mac book, for a small business i’m starting in my area. What i am going to do is convert peoples vhs – to dvd’s.

I plan on using a roxio software kit.

Now what i want to know is…

since i’m going to college currently i am eligable for student rates on apple.com. which is idk percent off?

Now what i would ideally like is a computer with 2gigs ram 160 hdd dvd burner etc.
-aluminum unibody casing (optional)

what would be the best deal. is there any way i could get a student percentage discount on a refurbished macbook with unibody? – or the free ipod?

otherwise i would just get a regular macbook w/ student discount or ipod.

so…. would it be smarter to get the ipod touch that i can get and just sell that.

or student discount rate? -

You can do the math yourself easy enough. Just go to the online store and then look for the Education Store link. Say that you are a student. Pick your school (or well any school since you’re just pricing stuff out). Then you’ll be taken to the education store.

Go and do up the laptop as you want it. Find out how much they’ll charge. That is the student price. That is the only student price they’ll ever give you right now. Then compare against the refurbished store. Also check out macconnection.com – a wholesaler. They usually have good deals on last generation models. So take one step back (which isn’t that big of a hit frankly) and save a bunch of cash. Just make sure you don’t need any of the specific new features of the current models (some people might).

You don’t get the free iPod unless you go with a brand new Mac. And even then its actually just an Apple Store credit. So if you wanted to put it towards other Apple products (like how about a nice new Airport Extreme Base Station) you could do that too. Or if you wanted to buy any Apple applications.

For what you’re doing I would up the RAM to 4GB. And look to get as fast a processor as you can afford. Don’t buy the absolute top of the line processor (usually way to expensive), but don’t go to low end either. The tasks you’re looking to do will be at least partially processor intensive, so don’t skimp to hard there.

160GB drive is fine. You’ll want an external drive anyway. That is better for you for storing any large files you might have. Its a better workflow for stability and health of the internal drive. Look for like a Western Digital MyBook Studio Edition (something with Firewire connections – the Mac friendly connection). USB 2.0 is useless for professional purposes, step up and go firewire.

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