Hi Charl Editing is one thing and unless you are a serious photographer, i would not buy a mac straight away. To slap on some presets is no magic and neither is a bit of cloning etc here and there, when a computer becomes important is when you start to work in multy layer images, some of my landscapes is up to 1.5gig big!! Then my pc with 4gig RAM just chockes and that is not fun. I still use pc, but mac is on the shopping list. But for 20K I can now buy another probody or a L series lens, which will make me more money than a new pc. And yes, that price is for the 27 inch i5 Mac. Super computer and really a gem, but as I said unless you are a full time photographer that is editing award winning shots, you do not need a mac. Yes it will be better and yes it might be faster, but for your wifes application you really do not need it.
