Which one to choose ?

Hi,
I was not sure to post this subject here or in the mac mini forum, but I decided to post it here
I want you to help me in a decission. I want to buy a mac, but I don't know if I have to buy a Mac mini or an iMac. I explain my problem.
I have a monitor (22in), a cordless keyboard and mouse but I'm ... tired of my PC and I want to switch. I love my girlfriend's macbook. I don't know if I have to buy a mac mini and plug my stuff in it, or buy a iMac and use my keyboard and my monitor as second monitor.
I'm not sure which one it the best for price/perf and I want some advice. Can you guys (or girls :P) help me.
I know that the Mac mini is ... mini and non-evoluting but it cost 800$ to get the faster one. Then, there is a iMac, which is faster than the mac mini but cost 1500 for the faster 20in. I also know that the iMac include keyboard, mouse, iSight and it's integrated monitor.
Does the iMac worth the extra 700$.
I need some power to run on or 2 vm and probably some game...
Help me with pros and cons to help me to choose please.
Oh, I forgot, I'm not sure if I want a laptop... but if it's better depending on your point... maybe I can choose laptop :P
Thanks
Message was edited by: Ahaus
Message was edited by: Ahaus

I'm an IT instructor and work out of both a Mac and PC lab being of the firm opinion that a tech worker who only knows Windows is like an employee of a quick oil change shop calling himself an auto mechanic. Shortly after the Intel Macs came out I bought a refurb mini and played with it a long time, upgraded and modded it, and generally went geeky on it. Good fun. The mini is a strong performer but it does have its flaws. After years of owning minitower Macs I bought a top line 24" iMac this spring. It does blow the mini out of the water. A very sweet machine.
As an aside, I was quite amazed by BootCamp. Since every peripheral I own is either FireWire or USB based, installing XP on the mini was having a PC (when I needed a PC). My winbox sat unused for several months and after I bought the iMac I sold it. It is really sweet to be running XP in virtualization (using Parallels Desktop) to run browsers in Windows while I'm running browsers in the Mac (and even more browsers in Ubunta if I want) to test out my web site updates. That was 90% of the winbox's task in life. Yep, I think the iMac will do you.

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