Ready to make the switch from PC to Mac, but which one?

[msully]

I have finally decided to switch from PC to Mac but can't for the life of me decide between the MBP and MBA. I have been given strong opinions for both already. Every time I think I have decided on one, I get new conflicting advice. I'm also wondering about the necessity of getting the SSD. I had decided to go the SSD route for sure but could only afford to get the 128g at this time and was told today by an employee at Apple that that wouldn't be large enough given my amount of pictures and itunes. I do have a desktop external HD.

Also, thoughts on 4g vs 8g of RAM?

I would appreciate any and all advice that any of you could give me as I make this decision.

I'm going to post this same message on the MBP and MBA forums as well in hopes to get as much advice as possible. I'm new to this forum. (and forums, in general ) so hoping that I'm not breaking any etiquette rules by doing so.

Thanks again in advance for any advice you can give me!

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[JezzerP]

I'm going to post this same message on the MBP and MBA forums as well in hopes to get as much advice as possible. I'm new to this forum. (and forums, in general ) so hoping that I'm not breaking any etiquette rules by doing so.

Welcome to the the forums, but I'm afraid it isn't really good forum etiquette to repost the same question in multiple sub-forums. I am going to close this thread down now, but for now leave the ones in the MBA and MBP sub-forums and see if you get any different responses. This is the plain old MacBook sub-forum and as such not strictly relevant to your question. I may well close down or merge the other two, if the responses come in one rather than then other. Hope you understand.