Our 5 year old Dell computer died last week and took along all of the pictures on my hard drive. I am planning on sending it in to a data recovery service that will charge $600 to try to see if they can recover any of the pictures.
Anyway, after being upset with Dell, I went to the Apple store and picked up a new 24″ iMac to see what all the fuss was about. The hardest part was figuring out where the on/off switch was on the Macs!
I was able to very easily upload new pictures from our camera – just plug it in. No Canon or other software to install. The uploads even seem faster.
Picasa, my old editing tool on the PC doesn’t work on the Mac, so I am now learning to use iPhoto.
I haven’t quite figured out how to save the image in a lower resolution so the file uploads to WordPress are quicker, but the cutover was pretty painless.
And look, no more wires cluttering up my desktop. I have a basketful of cables going in the trash!
Khare Family Adventures 
I use this for my backup solution.
http://www.carbonite.com/
I love it. I reformatted my disk and restored all my photos from their server. And it monitors your folder. The moment you add something new, it will be backed up.
You can run iMac as a PC with this:
http://www.parallels.com/
This way you’ll have best of both the worlds.
You should also check out Memeo, they just released their Memeo Share software. It lets you exchange full-res photos and videos with other people and as a result, it also can serve as a backup for that kind of media. Memeo lets you store up to 1GB for free, it is $4.95 a month if you want to have more photos than that. I have over 15GBs of photos and videos, so I like the idea of having a remote backup. Memeo also has backup software that is pretty cool, the software backs up data to any kind of destination like an external hard drive, USB drive, iPod, FTP site, Network drive, etc.
FYI – I do work for Memeo
You can get Memeo Share here: http://www.memeo.com/memeoshare_press_download.php