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Well in a perfect world you are right Money is Money and buying a Windoze Machine From Hell would be what some might consider a viable solution. But I am not "someone"....I am a Mac User!  and I have been in hell for the past year or so and don't want to make my existence more difficult  or worse than necessary by getting another Windoze machine (already got s cheap laptop used and though I have had it for two years still can not get it to connect to my internal network...sucks!) . LOLOLOL
No, but honestly I have worked on both and prefer the Mac. If I could afford to spend $500 on a crumby Windows machine I can invest roughly the same amount and get the MacMini and use the peripherals I already have instead. If I was working I would have gotten the new one and left the G4 iMac alone to keep on working with what it has until it died. But I have been outa work since last February 10 and still no hope in sight. Two years ago my apartment got flooded and it took until just this last August to get it fixed. I was still on unemployment then but it finally got done...thank God,  by the dictatorial condo management firm and their insurance(a story I really don't need to get worked up about again!).

I have a double ruptured disk and a torn ligament or something in my left shoulder ( I am told, needs surgery) which  in combination with my bad back make finding alternative work even in (Perish the thought) retail, almost impossible.

All i want to do aside from finding a decent job is do my artwork...as best I can to keep the pain of reality at bay. Thank God for Poser and the internet!
Now all I need to do is find someone with decent hands and some string. Any partied]s interested PM me!  LOL