antevark, you said: "there's 4 parts that make up clock speed, hertz is just 1" To me clockspeed is the frequency. In the case of a computer this is hertz. What you're talking about is processing speed (I think). What I meant to say is that the technical layout of the MAC and PC are different. The MAC has a hardware layout that's usually better suited to computergraphics and a MAC at 1GHz could kick some 1GHz-PC ass (when programming is optimized). But at the moment you can buy P4's at 3GHz. The fastest MAC's can't compete with that. If you would run the current MAC's at a higher frequency then they would be able to compete with the fastest PC's. However, there are indeed other ways to improve on processing speed. I use WinME. It's basically crap, but when you handle it with care (that means handling it in a minimalistic style and never take risks) it can be fairly stable. I've been told that XP is more stable, but all the encounters I've had with it have made me feel repelled by it. I'd rather use linux if it could run bryce(and run it as fast or faster then windows). MAC OS X sounds great when I hear people talking about it, but sadly I can't run it on my PC (as far as I know).

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