Well I have Carrara 3. I am speculating and trying to gather the funds to jump to 4 Pro. I had very little issues with Carrara since EOVIA took over the project and came out with the patch for the broken Metacreations version. I don't do this for a living so Carrara fits pretty good as a hobbyist tool. I also hear that AM dose not play good with other applications so if you use it you are stuck with it all through out a project so it's not like you can combine both Carrara's strengths and AM to complete a project. Carrara at lest seems a bit more flexible from what I understand. I am also on a Mac and I make my living as a graphic designer, I do use PC's to but avoid them as much as possible du too security and instability problems. I have had my share of Widows XP problems with malware and having to reinstall stuff, so I just stick with OS X 10.4.2.

Message edited on: 07/16/2005 10:11