Hi gilouch0!

The fact is that for your first electric guitar, it really doesn't matter. Pick the material you fancy the look of. By the time you learn to play well enough that it will, if you're like most people today in our comparatively affluent societies, you'll want and have something additional anyway.

I have both Rosewood and Maple fingerboards. Feel wise it won't matter greatly. Overall I think I'd prefer Rosewood in a Strat -if I had to choose just one.

The singular most important consideration in my book for buying any, but especially that first electric guitar is buying one which best fits you, saliently your fretting hand.

Why?

Progress and enjoyment in learning to play is facilitated by more important design aspects you possibly (?) won't appreciate yet or have knowledge of, but which do matter. They are: comfort and playability relative to you. e.g. Nut width, fingerboard radius, neck section, string spacing, scale length & overall length, body weight & design (tummy tuck cutaways), etc. In these attributes, all electric guitars aren't equal.

Why is this important?

[br]People come in three acknowledged basic characteristic body types, and in different sizes within those, otherwise we wouldn't need different shoe sizes, lasts or fractional widths. Hands are no different. So regardless of the hackneyed "Hand size doesn't matter" cliche, it is a partial truth. So if you aren't a 6ft+ ectomorph with arms which reach to below your knees and a boney 'pinky' longer than the average index finger, it matters. IMV&E, guitars are anything but the 'one size fits all' item popular sentiment all to commonly mythologises.

So in the first electric category, other than choosing a guitar neck which fits your hand, pick the guitar with a pickup config orientated to your preferred music genre within your budget, and which appeals to you aesthetically. As you've identified this for you as a Strat. style, arguably the most versatile choice (I have two, a coil splitable HSS and a P90+H), the next considerations for tone and overall sound are PUP config including PUP type & quality (e.g. ceramic or alnico, II or V, their quality, etc), which of course affects price. Ultimately with any electric guitar, when it comes to budget as it does for most of us, the choice of amp will affect overall tone more than PUPs available today in guitars even at modest affordable prices. e.g. Yamaha Pacifica 112V with alnico Vs.

Hope there's something helpful in there to guide you in your decision. Cheers.