Excuse me, but the "velocity engine" chip on any Mac built within the last 5 years or so is a supercomputer (and has more power than the Cray... does Cray still exist?). Check out the gigaflops per second. My G4 with dual 450s is 3 years old, and I badly lust after the new ones with dual 1.42 GHz and a gig of ram preinstalled. You can buy them for $2700. (There are cheaper versions, if you only need 1.2 duals.) PhotoShop takes advatage of the velocity engine and the multi-processing power, but it, too is a workhorse of the graphics industry. Carolly