Thanks to everyone who came to the forum. It was a great turnout and a lot of fun. Hopefully you got your questions answered. Don’t forget to check out the resource page for more software ideas.

Questions you would like to answers too:
How to convince church to get a mac, shelby dependent? will work in bootcamp, should work in parallels
Presentation software?
Anything between address book and filemaker? — bento from filemaker
Any ideas for apple non-profit? Hardware and software? – get same discount from apple store
Will it come with everything I need? yes and no, it will come with everything you need, but you might outgrow it and need to get more advanced
Networking Mac to PC? in leopard as easy as opening finder
Student Tracking software options? online: YouthTracker.net
Photo editing software? pixelmator, acorn, seashore, photoshop elements, gimpshop, sketch are great options
iLife 08? web design stuff — rapid weaver, sand vox, snapshot web

Advice for Newbies:
to access exchange server: entourage, evolution, syncing with yahoo or gmail

Software you can’t live without:
ProPresenter – new version has countdowns and bible integrated.
Opensong — free presentation (some have had trouble with this one)
Roll call for membership (www.bythebook.com)
For layouts: Pages (if you need more indesign (upgrade from old pagemaker for better price))
NeoOffice / open office for MS Office replacement
For intel chips upgrade CS2 to CS3 for better performance (but not for leopard, yet)
Think3 widget – convert office files to mac
Firefox addon: identify flash so you can download it.
TubeSock – get flash movies
FLV file – add safari button to download and convert
(Option – Open Apple – A will show you what safari is accessing)
(apple – i will send them HTML page),
constant contact, bluestream (free) – send HTML emails
twitter for short blogs and texts (tweet to keep up with all your twitter friends)
mozes.com — free texting service
livetype for building countdowns (part of final cut express)