Howdy.

I was in the same position as you a couple of months ago, looking for programs to edit movies on my pc and the best program people said to use is a new Mac. Lol.
I bought a 27" i5 mac. imovie has an excellent editing program that is very easy to use.
It comes standard with the mac and has so many different effects for titles, cutting between scenes, music editing, fade in/out etc etc.
This is my first mac so im still getting used to the change from pc, but its pretty easy.

As for photo editing, iphoto is a great program for basic adjustments like cropping, bright/dark, saturation, contrast etc, but im looking for Photoshop cs4 to do the things iphoto cant do, layering, filling etc. My pc has photoshop cs3 and its a wonderful program to do any adjustments.

Hope this helps a bit mate.
If you can, have a play with the new mac first and see what you think.
Good luck buddy.

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