Man i just couldnt resist this one Macs are easier to use because they have a neat little part of the os called the Finder. And the keyboard shortcuts on the mac ,they are more well laid out ergonomically, which is something critical for a designer since carpal tunel can cut your career short or make it more painful i Know i have it i used a mac for 4 years so im pretty familiar with the os and for years i preached about the good of the mac as opposed the wintel evil clones, but i have to admit Mac users you guys are on a desert island when it comes to good 3-D Software there is alot of low end or entry level software such as strata or raydream which take forever to render 1 frame, ive used them so i can speak from experience. and for years i preached and praised the Mac Bible. that is until i switched jobs and started using Max and then i bought a PC and my eyes were opened. i can render faster (much faster) on a pc with 3d studio max up to 4X faster with my p111 600 mhz than a decked out G-4 running strata at a fraction of the bloated prices apple charges for their hardware. i just completed 7 animated sequences for a proposal totaling 5 seconds per sequence. of a virtual spokesperson thats 35 seconds of lip synched animation fully textured and animated and rendered at 720 X486 RGBA targas with alpha enabled channels in under 5 days using mimic/lipsynch and a neat tool from Conan the Barbarian called maximum pose for importing into max as a maxscript. no way would i have finished i would have probably not even taken the job if i were on a mac. that is just the truth. wish i could be more supportive of a good os which apple has done a good job of keeping alive all these years,but the sad truth is most people using macintosh mashines are people who are graphic artists geared for print material at least that has been my experience in the corporate world. my suggestion would be to switch to a wintel machine and start enjoying all the neat stuff available only for NT or 2000