I was wondering where one could find cheaper memory and disc space upgrades for macs? Upgrading to two gigs of memory just doesn't seem proper at 750$. Because with a PC it only costs like 400 dollars.

For hard drives will any serial ata work? If so I'm going to buy one from a whole saler for cheap.

I'm only asking these questions because I'm about to buy my first mac. I'd really like to know what options I have for the upgrades. I figure my current Dell 19" LCD will work for a monitor, and I'm sure if I need a graphics card upgrade I can use any agp card.

Please help a mac newb out

-maz

For RAM, don't cheat, buy mac certified RAM. PC RAM may work but as PCs are slightly less demanding on RAM (at least the vendors you may find the cheapo to be no working at all or if working, creating errors. Now you can use the big shops on the net if they sell mac certified RAM, check the return policy in case.

For hard drives, as long as it is serial ATA (you naughty you have a G5, I hate you already it's all right.

The screen will work ok, you have an adapter ADC to VGA with the mac and there's a DVI port too. You can even have 2 screens…
the card… well, if you need a third screen maybe, but buy then a mac compatible crad. Not all model have mac support! there are some tricks available but it's not for the newbie.

Welcome on board