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That is indeed a very sweet machine Thomas! I wouldn't mind owning it myself!! The main reason I do not like to run my PCs on the net is I do not like my machine reporting my business to Redmond everytime I go online. The .net stuff is just way too invasive for my blood. Upgrading Int Explorer even adds .net to Win98 ( I had a time with that) I do not trust Billy G with my data. Microsoft's next OS, Longhorn(eta 2006) looks to be even more invasive. I can see the PCs try to connect to Microsoft constantly from my Mac as I monitor my network traffic. You cannot tell they are doing it from the PC though. That is the sneaky type of stuff that turns me off on MS. Linux is great if only there were more apps available. BTW - The G5 running Panther(OSX 10.3) is 64bit clean hardware on a 64bit OS. The Athalon64 is much more comparable to the G5 in both price and performance. The cheapest I could find an Athalon64 is $700 for the CPU alone, and the mobo is also more expensive. Is XP64 out yet other than beta? BTW #2 - Apple uses AMD's hypertransport on the G5s for the frontside bus. 6.4GBS bandwith across the mobo per CPU is nice indeed. I also prefer to support AMD vs Intel. Much better bang for the buck! One last BTW - I attached a link to my favorite PC site. Very balanced info with no punches pulled for Win/Mac/Linux. Be sure to check out their God Box receipe(specs). That is one awesome PC windows or not!