I'm Gett'n me a Mac Book!

[your mother]

stof said:

xcalibur839 said:
You really wont notice a difference between 1 and 2 gigs, but you will want more video RAM, especially with Core Animation in Leopard, try and get 256MB if you can, also make sure the processor is 64 bit, it should be but it might not, especially if it's an older Mac Book, because Leopard is a 64 bit only OS (and trust me, you will want to upgrade to Leopard).

Any reason in particular?

Actually, you want a 64-bit OS if the applications you are going to use support 64 bits; otherwise there isn't much to gain at all.

The only problem with Intel integrated graphics is that it will use part of the 1GB pool for graphics. So you can assign 256MB to graphics, but that leaves your system with 768MB. However, again that should not be an issue because you a) don't need the fancy animations (as they are system hogs) and b) you can set your graphics to 128MB and system ram uses the remainder, because for what you plan to use the computer for you will be able to do all your tasks with aplomb.