I reviewed G5's specifications. It sounds good but the RAM limitation is serious, it only expanable to 4GB. My computer hit 2GB several times with poser and 40+ hairs. Firefly tripled the original scene size before render and it pissed on my hard driver for vitural memory space. So I have been considering for awhile to buy either Itanium2 or Opteron with full RAM (16GB desktop mainboard) because I can not afford to have other RAM crash. I have all XFrog plants/trees cd library ($3500.00). Some of plants/trees in it has high polygons. I must have a computer with large RAM. Some of you probably will suggest me to seek supercomputer desktop from SGI. I have evaluated SGI machines and high-end softwares. I do not like it a bit because learning curves and require to hire 3D artists to complete a scene. I like simple 3d proggies Carrara, VUE, and Poser. Its easy to work with and it is attractive softwares. I hope that CL will introduce Carrara's rendering engine into Poser's core program. I am continuing to support CL as long as if they hears us. Waldo