YL, I have to feed my family too, 5 to be exact, but the point that I was trying to make is that if someone has the money to buy a descent computer for Vue (that's a lot more expensive than $595) then he also has the money to buy Vue d'Esprit. The only difference is, that everybody makes different choices. What you save here can be spend somewhere else ;) I mean, I hear people say that they don't have money for this or that, but at the same time they buy a brand new car for $25,000 US... it's all about choices ;-) I understand Thomas that nobody needs to make a Rembrandt of course, but instead grabbing some basic ideas about art. That doesn't change the fact that even I am very interested to see how far we can go with realism in 3D, although realism shouldn't be the ultimate goal the way ibanezcollector tries to make some of us believe, at least that's my impression and sorry if I'm wrong.