yes, stewer knows, but if he tells ya, they'll re-assign him to e-frontier's office in kabul. :lol: don't be so quick to assume P7 will work better on leopard/intel than on vista/intel, as vista was largely based on tiger's predecessors, and both machines are using very similar hardware now. as to mac minis, they really aren't up to the task for any graphics- intensive 3D work IMVHO. at this point, I dunno if all 600,000 known windows viruses will be able to infect vista (I doubt it), but black hats are already targetting exploder 7 big-time.