Get a Mac? Puh.. leeeze. (Sorry mac lovers... my PC daemon possessed me for a moment and made me type this) Lots o RAM helps... and staying as far away from volumetrics as I can. My "Vampires in the Mist" image was the longest render I ever experienced (96hrs total, before it crashed and I had to finish it in post) I discovered later, fooling around with it, that its was the volumetric nebulae that did it, w/o nebulae it took less than 10hrs to do a photo quality render of the same scene on my dual 233 with 512mb ram.

"I am a good person now and it feels... well, pretty much the same as I felt before (except that the headaches have gone away now that I'm not wearing control top pantyhose on my head anymore)"

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