One thing no one's asked yet. Are you using NTFS? Because if you're still using FAT, it's the worst thing you could do. I don't plan to change from win 2k until I'm absolutely forced to. It's rock solid and that's all I want. I'm quite prepared to believe that XP is a great system too. After all, it's a rehashed version on win 2k, but I wouldn't dump 2k to go to XP. Not much gain there at all. BTW, you can can get a video card really cheap that will give you OpenGL support. That would definitely help with P6. mac