Macbook or iMac?

On my weekly sabatical to Birmingham yesterday I dragged my colleague to the Apple store at the Bullring to check out the new Macbook.  I did look for them at my local John Lewis at the weekend but they were no-where to be found.

I was impressed by them too.  Small, light, neat, smart, fast, clever and great at oral sex too!

But after looking at the 20 inch iMacs and also after reading that my matey WhiteBoyBob has just bought one (and not managed to break it), I am wondering if one of those might be a better purchase.  I have also been reading some benchmarks on gaming with the 20 inch iMac using XP and Boot Camp.  They do seem impressive too.  I think I will have to install XP via Boot Camp as the kids use some games on XP still and the wife will probably get all confused over OSX and will not be able to work her Home Accounts Spreadsheet properly without ringing me all the time.

I do use my laptop at home a little.  Not lots though – just a little.  Sometimes after a hard days internet surfing work I don’t want to be huddled over another PC in the corner of the room.  Sitting on the sofa, slowly cooking my legs with the laptop on wifi is quite nice really.  I have done more of my “Blogger Template Overhaul” series using the laptop than anything else.  My desktop PC setup at home is not perfect for spending lots of time at the screen.  Stuck in the corner next to the dinner table, it is quite restrictive to use and the desk it sits on gets piled with paper, toys, mobile phones and recently, my Xbox360, controllers and headset as I now play that via my LCD monitor.

But the 20 inch iMacs are nice and they are faster and have a bigger hard disk too!  I do quite a bit of photoshop stuff so maybe that would be a better purchase?  But the laptops are nice and “free” and I can take it on holiday and stuff too.  Oh… crap…. more decisions.