Arry and Pumeco - it didn't take nearly as long to render because the Celeron line of Intel chips doesn't have the more complex math capabilities for graphics that the Pentium line has - it's made to be a low-cost processor for general clerical office environments, and for people who only surf the web and use software that requires only simple graphics like word processing. The Pentium series would have gone faster, as would/did the G5 series - even G4 series processes faster graphics than the Celeron line. It also doesn't help that you, Arry, have a dual processor - way nice!