I have crossed over to the dark side!

Well I went and did it. I bought a Mac, more precisely I bought and
iMac. I must say that the iMac is the coolest looking computer I have
ever seen. I am very comfortable in PC Land but am definitely a noob
in MacWorld. I can now feel for those people that get their first PC
and aren't sure what to do with it. Don't get me wrong I was up and
running with the iMac quire quickly. It has a very intuitive
interface and the built in help is awesome.

I would go so far as to say that someone that has never used a
computer before would be better off getting a Mac (oh my god have I
been assimilated that quickly). The iMac comes complete with quite a
lot of software right out of the box. You can start dealing with
photos, movies, music right away. I have played around with iPhoto
and it does an awesome job building photo albums. iTunes works great
(but we already knew that). My next big adventure is going to be with
iMovie.

I had to do some research because my camcorder (old) does not have
firewire. It only has a composite output. To make a long story short
I need to buy a hardware converter to take the composite signal and
turn it into a DV signal (firewire). I found a converter by Canopus,
model ADVC-55. It sells for about $280 CDN. Once I get a hold of
this I can start to download my home movies into the iMac and see what
this Mac thing is all about.
If anybody has any insight on this I would appreciate some help. We
all start out as noobs but eventually with enough time and patients we
become somewhat of an expert ( at least in our own minds).