"do you normally run this way? ;-)" Actually, yes. There are a ton of things floating around in the Runlevels that I honestly never use, and it doesn't seem to restrict what I need to do. I keep a backup of what was default just in case I hit a snag, but I do fairly well w/o it. Come to think of it, I should've tried running it with just a default Poser install (and no big-assed Runtime), which would cull Poser's overhead by a lot (IIRC it loads a reference index of the Runtime contents during load, yes?) "and some PC guys have reported rather faster times than this, and other than faster clockspeeds on the CPUs and faster..." I'm not surprised. Like someone had said in the thread that spawned this one - Poser 5 was/is basically a kludge. "Shame they gave up the SCSI drives." Dunno... having SATA by default isn't so bad :) I also noticed that the test file actually ran slower than my normal files do. It may be the reflections, but I'm not sure. I'll run it again and this time see what the System Monitor shows as far as usage, because for some odd reason I don't think it's even using a quarter of the capacity(for instance I know the Altivec engine isn't even being touched.) /P