My humble system is an Intel Celeron 533 mhz, with builtin video chip, "sound card," & LAN and 512MB of SDRAM. Add to that a 20GB hard drive for Windows XP Home Edition, and all software except Poser stuff. Poser 4 & 5 reside happily on a new 120GB Maxtor hard drive, while a 40GB hard drive handles all my projects. I don't fiddle-faddle with Virtual memory, and I don't divide any hard drives into partitions. Everything works just fine, with no crashes in months or years. I keep hardware and software up-to-date. I can run several intensive applications at the same time. Yes, I'm a bit out-dated, and looking for the money to finally upgrade. But it's kinda funny so many folks with newer computers, and "more techie know-how" are having so many problems?!