You're comparing apples to oranges there my friend. Not to mention you only have 196MB in the PC, and god-knows what kind of components for $500. Totally unfair comparison. Take the money you paid for the overpriced G4 and see what kind of exceptional speed and quality you get from a Micron, Alienware, Falcon, or Dell machine. You would be amazed. Oh and then wait until you want to add components, upgrade the motherboard or make other modifications to your little G4 in a year or two. Good luck ... the PC user will be passing you by in both price and perfomance. Add in the fact there is a LOT of great software unavailable for the Mac and it's amazing to me anyone buys a Mac. I guess the misnomer/myth lives on. Anyway, my point is if you would have just gotten a decent PC to begin with, you would have saved yourself some money and the headache of trying to figure out how to use Mimic files from the PC on a Mac.