Apple Users

This one is about $1K and can do all you want, much newer than mine with 2X the memory:

http://store.apple.com/us/product/FC309LL/A

Comcast set me up and the guy went into the System Preferences pane to get my Internet going and checked the speed with some device he had. His jaw dropped and he just couldn't stop talking about it. This is the fastest machine I've ever had.

I'm really glad you didn't spend those thousands of dollars before they changed over. They don't encourage one to use the older things, but my repair tech says he can squeeze in 1 or 2 TB in a new hard drive when this one fails again.

To convert your tapes you are going to need quite a bit of memory. I still don't keep my movies and videos on the iMac, I keep it on externals that are plugged in with a hub.

I have an external that isn't USB but Apple sold me an adapter. My iMac still has older style ports. But the one in the link, and all the ones that will follow is strictly USB. And a lot of things are going to the mini-USB which is like the connection on some cellphones.

If you change over, what type of external storage does your current system have? If it's floppies, you are in deep trouble transferring. But you can migrate through your System Preferences pane with an Ethernet cable.

But perhaps another member knows a solution to this problem. I appears google doesn't know a thing about it, though.