Back to the original post: I think it's the 256 MB RAM requirement of P6. Win98/Me can't handle more than 128 MB/app, a memory compression/defragmentation utility like Ramboost can push it somewhat beyond that limit, but 256 MB? I don't think so. A Win98/Me rig with more than 128 MB physical just has a large disk cache, that's all the system uses those extra MBs for. WinXP has a lot of bells and whistles, but if you turn them off it's a nice fast OS. Is it better than Win2000? Not really, the only real difference is driver and hardware support - I can't run 2000 on my portable, but I can (and do) run XP. Mac OSX has its own problems (CFM/Carbon/Cocoa). I don't know if Mac OSX lets the user turn off the eye candy and leave some CPU power to really get things done... those G5s ARE awesome processors and should run circles around a Pentium 4 - with a lean and mean OS.

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