Trying to record with guitar

alright first and foremost, i'm new to mac and grageband, so far i'm loving it. next, i'm running into a problem. when i plug my guitar in the input, turn up the volume and turn "monitor:on" it still plays thru the mic. like i can tell the input is coming through the mic. am i missing something here? (i know i have to be) thanks in advance, a happy new mac user thus far though

i have the line-in selected, turned the internal mic all the way down, turned the line-in all the way up and i'll have head phones (noise cancelling) and i can talk and hear my voice through them as if my built in mic on my macbook pro is picking it up. (sorry i didn't include the computer type earlier) i have an epiphone noel gallagher supernova edition (basically a semi-hollow archtop electric) i selected line-in on system preferences, i didn't know if their is some other setting i need to change on garageband though (i did turn monitor to on).
do i need to buy like an audio interface to run into the laptop? i have read this in another forum, but i didn't know if i could get by without this or not.
alright, i think i may have answered my own question on that one. since it's a line-in, and i don't have a pre-amp on my guitar or anything, it's probably really low and wouldn't pick up. but i still don't understand why i could hear my voice over the headphones. oh well, i need to get an audio interface or something of the sort to actually amplify the guitar. next question: anyone know of one that will work well with intel macs?

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