Hey, great results, but one little thing, though "basically I ditched as many excess processes as was safe" do you normally run this way? ;-) Once you start optimizing you computer to a state you don't normally run it, or optimize Poser (as some others have done, I think), it isn't really a fair test anymore, I just wanted to point out. I'm running my 2.8 Ghz Pentium 4 overclocked 10%, it has a pair of SATA RAID 0 drives (which do about double drive transfer speed), and 2GB of matched Corsair DDAM Twinx1024-3200LLPT memory, in an ASUS P4G800-E motherboard with optomized settings, in Win 2K, which (at one point, anyway) was thought of as being slightly faster than Win XP, due to less overhead. The reason I mention the above was my time for the test is 207 seconds, and some PC guys have reported rather faster times than this, and other than faster clockspeeds on the CPUs and faster (SCSI) (I assume P5 still accesses the drives during a render, like P4 always does) drives, I don't see how they are getting them, either. ;-) However, a MAC is another story. Shame they gave up the SCSI drives.