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"there a very few professional level graphics products" Maya, Lightwave and Electric Image aren't pro 3D apps? I kinda think of Maya, LW and Max as the big 3 in desktop 3D and two out of three ain't bad. What about Final Cut Pro? Cold Mountain was entirely edited with FCP (link). Most of Discreet's (MAX) newer products have been ported to OSX (like Combustion). Shoot, I know there's not as much available for the Mac and I know you didn't mean to imply that pro work can't be done on Macs. Actually all the video houses we work with have a mix of both Macs and PCs and most consider it a "best of both worlds" situation. We could trade "anything you can do I can do better" licks all day but that doesn't change the fact that Poser5 is slow under OSX. "$400 Dell desktops and build a render farm" Except Poser doesn't do distributed rendering. "Or get yourself a PC with a PURE graphics card," Again, won't help Poser - the real time display is taken from Bryce's Sree3D (no OGL) which no graphics card supports. As far as I know, the Firefly renderer is all CPU and doesn't use the features of high end video cards. Ever heard of ICOS? http://www.denounce.com/macgene.html :-) Sorry if this comes across as a rant and some of it's OT content; Dan who works with 3 PC's, 2 Macs and a big 'ol honking UNIX machine.