Well, i wish i had your Mac Esther! :-)) But, i can build 3 PCs like mine for the price of 1 G5. So, it's mostly economics that tipped the balance. Cause, i like both Mac & PC... There are things you can do to speed things up a bit. "optimizing" WinXp for instance. You can easily disable 20+ services(That you will never use). I'll write you a tutorial on how to do that. The "footprint" of my WinXP pro is 105 megs in the RAM. Most people's would be between 160-200. That alone helps a lot. Also, my 3D Putter doesn't have any Norton utilities on it. The reason is simple, Norton apps take away lots of resources. Instead i remotely scan for viruses on it via my older putter. :-) Consider also, that i have only PPP. So, it's much faster to load 20 V3s + clothes. With P5 or P6, it would probably be more like 5-6 V3, then things would get sluggish My upcoming "Throne Room" will be a good test for your putter cause it will have lots of textures & around 150,000 polys. Dolce Sogno! Marcus