=/ I'm sorry, but as an AMD Advocate...I hate Apple/Macs/Whatever they are calling themselves now. Yes it's powerful, yes it's expensive. But I would be happier with an Amd Athlon 3200 +xp any day. Unfortunately bryce 5 works much faster on an apple, only because it was designed FOR it. My uncle has a G4, and we always get into Amd/Intel Versus Macintosh debates all the time... Buy me one, and yeah i'd use it for encoding movies and rendering....That's about it... I don't like macs for the Same reason I like AMD more than Intel.