Aye, well you make a good point with the virus condition and sexceptibility of XP, but I use a finely tuned version XP Pro 2003 and am nearly immune to such silliness. Also, you are misled when it comes to the Open/Save functions of Windows. It does remember where you saved your last files, just like the Mac. FOr example, if I go to save a project from Bryce it will wake to C:Program FilesBryceProjects, which is where I save all my projects that don't need their own folder per se. And if I back up a step, to C:Program FilesBryce, to save a new default scene, it will wake up at that location next time I go to save. But most of my files go to the Project folder... I use Photoshop, Amorphium, Lightwave, Poser 4 & 5, Bryce 4 & 5, Plant Studio, Painter, Universe, Illustrator, After Effects, and many more programs. All of these hit only the processor, including Amorphium which I originally thought took some clock cycles from your graphics card, but alas... No one at Nvidia or ATI has ever made much attempt to integrate with production software, since games are where they make their money at... Ariannah, if you coud afford a multi-thousand-dollar Macintosh, you should be able to afford a few-hundred-dollar PC that's much faster. The Dual-G5 processor setup is ridiculous, it takes Apple 2 processors to even compare with one Athlon, and even then they fall very, very short. It's the way of things, overspecialize and you breed in weakness. That's why it takes two people to mate, one set of genes would be more susceptible to viruses and exterior conditions...