Choosing which  computer to synch my iphone to.

Now that I have an iPhone, I need some advice about which computer to synch to as I can only choose one. I am choosing between a MacBook Pro with Leapard plus Windows XP imbedded,and 3 PC's with Windows XP and different vintages as regards RAM, memory, CPU type and speed.Each computer is set up for different purposes: (1)My personal laptop, A 2005 GQ computer with AMD Turion 64 (1.6 GHz), upgraded 1.12GB RAM and 111 GB HD)mostly usded for personal e-mail and personal web browsing; (2)A HP Pavillion desktop with 2.8 GHZ Celeron, 504 MB RAM, and 67.5 GB HD connected to a big screen LCD/TV and used mostly for entertainment; (3)A Dell Latitude D430 (1.2GHz 790MHz Core 2; 0.99GB Ram, 74GB HD)issued to me by company I work for, set up with VPN and microsoft exchange, and a Verizon Wireless account; and (5) A MaCBook Pro (2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM) with Leopard and XP coinstalled and used mostly for company videoconferencing.
Do I choose one of my personal computers so I don't have to port everything over and reinstall if I change employers? Among personal computers do I choose the desktop since it connects to my big screen LCD/TV and my 7.1 audio system? I don't use Outlook or most Office programs on this computer and so the ability to synch up with my personal or professional e-mail, or Word, Excel or Powerpoint files is not there.
Do I choose my personal laptop or the Dell work laptop? The work laptop has the most Office files of all types, but then I would have to load my personal music and movie files from an external HD to the iPhone through the work laptop. And what happens to my iphone files if I change employers?
Do I choose the Work Mac because it is a Mac and there are
many things I can do with Iphone that requires having a Mac but I just don't know what those apps are? Here I could synch with my work e-mail, and download the music and movies from external drive, but for most office programs I will not be using the Mac. What about GarageBand? How do I access MPEG files that I have created. Is it easier with a mac? Can I preserve all my files easily if I give up the Mac?
So the advice I need is about the many features the IPhone offers.. how important is CPU processing power, or synching with office programs versus with music or video?
Thanks for any help with this.
Baytech

Here are just a few suggestions others and by no means is exhaustive, I am sure others will weigh in.
-Just a cursory read of the support forum I have not seen overwhelming complaints that iPhone does not work with windows. It seems mac and windows work equally well with the iPhone
-Ringtones if you like ringtones and could see your self loading your iPhone up go with the mac. Garage Band gives you the ability to make ring tones from your own music collection for free. There are down loads like iToner etc that are unofficial ring tone makers so it makes it a little more difficult to you use.
-As long as memory of your devices exceeds 16 GB (which is as high as the iPhone goes) you will be able to take full advantage of your iPhone. Anything more will not make a difference.
-There is no heavy processing involved with your iPhone syncing to your desktop/laptop. What we are taking about is down loading contact lists music etc. No real graphics rendering is taking place. The iPhone is a seperate system you desktop/laptop to manage your iPhone for preferences downloads etc. So processing speeds do not matter that much.
-iPhone apps work with any iPhone regardless of what OS it is synced to. Even if you would like to use Mobile Me it can utilize some windows programs.
What I would do is figure out which or your personal computers you use most. Then I would set up a Mobile Me account then I would add all other computers you might use to sync with your Mobile Me account and this would solve all of your problems, for 99 bucks/year that is.

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