Just read that a guy named Ken Northern has built and is selling the world's fastest uni-processor pc at 480-705-4844 (no web site given). Supposedly the machine was four times faster than the fastest mac (at least on photoshop tests). Also, one of my clients has a Dell and I think it seems a bit flimsy and not that well put together. The enermax case I chose myself at pcclub could open a big can of whoop-ass on the Dell case :-) A final thought is that some of the time you save rendering on the PC will be lost because you'll have to constantly reboot (although maybe XP is more stable than win98se). On all of my pcs so far I've had to reboot (or sometimes even cold boot) on an hourly basis in order to keep things running smoothly. By comparison, I've only managed to completely lock up my eMac once so far. If Apple could just get some decent iron I swear I'd lay down some shock and awe on my pc and then throw it out the window.