your other option would be to send the unrendered product to someone, and then have them render it for you and send it back to you. I've done that for friends before and for people I just met over the net before. I let it render overnight or longer if needed. My system is: Aptiva AMD K6 500Mhz with 3D NOW! 128M RAM 10G primary HDD 6G seconday HDD Windows 98 (looking for windows NT) HP CD Writer Soundblaster X-Gamer Live! (not needed for rendering but has kickass sound) Let me know if I can help.