shadowdragonloard: I would agree with you if I was only using Bryce, but I use Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, Painter, Freehand, Illustrator, Fiereworks, InDesign, QuarkXpress, to name a few, and Carrara. This last one is written for dual processors and it renders lighting fast. I love it. The speed of Bryce rendering is not much of a concern to me, but stability is. All the other Apps that I use are not very processor dependent with the exception of Photoshop, but Photoshop has been extremely optimized for the Mac. I know that Bryce is no speed demon when it comes to rendering, regardless of the processor it works in. I agree that the computer is only a tool, and believe me I will never change to Windows because I am not very productive in it. I hate that I have to always "travel" through the same directory hierarchy starting from the desktop down to save a particular file in a folder even though I have just saved a file in that folder a second ago. I find this to annoying and to me the Mac presents a much better solution since it "remembers" the last folder you save something, heck it remembers the last 10 folders visited. With OS X you can save a file in any directory in a matter of a few click, Windows has a very cumbersome Open/Save file system that forces you to click through the same hierarchy every time. In the end, it's not a matter of how fast the computer does my work, it's how fast I can do my work in the computer. I do respect your choice of platform, but to a Mac user there is a lot more advantages then just raw speed. I have been using OS X for more than 2 years in three deferent Macs, I have never had to restart any of these computers from a crash. I have not had to re-install any application that has gotten corrupt. There is no known virus or trojan horse for OS X. I cant say the same thing of our Windows XP machine that has had a lot of problems since we bought it a year and a half ago. I am buying Bryce and taking advantage of this incredible price. Believe me, when you own as many software packages that have to be updated every 18 or so moths as I, every penny counts.