Oboy. Hate to ruin Intel's marketing, but HyperThreading is =not= what they claim it to be. Before you see -any- benefit from it, you have to have a multi-processor aware OS (like Win2k or XP), and the application has to be coded to take advantage of HT (it is very much like MMX and 3DNow were when they were introduced; if the instructions weren't in the code, you got no benefit from them). As for the P2...it would be below the 'required' specs listed for the RenderCow, but it never hurts to try! As long as you have 128 megs of ram and a few gigs for a swap file, it may work fine (Hmmm....hadn't thought to try the wireless networking; just got one myself for guests to use...let us know how it works!)