An interesting line of recommendations......

For my part, I have no wish to fan the flames of a Mac vs PC debate............

But what has been, & is, important for me is that the hardware I purchase works as effortlessly as possible: I do not have the knowledge, skills, or inclination to build a machine from component parts with the headache of compatibility, inter-operability, drivers, etc., not to mention issues of warranty et al. Thus, currently, Macs offer the best solution for me - with the added reassurance that the OS & hardware are engineered to work together optimally. PCs of a similar specification to their corresponding Macs are no longer ( to my understanding) significantly, if at all, cheaper (excluding self-build for the reasons cited above).

As we know & lament, e-on do not yet provide a 64bit version of Vue for the Mac: Thus, if you wish to benefit from significant amounts of RAM the options would appear to be...

1. Choose a PC running a 64bit Microsoft OS
2. Choose a Mac & run Vue on an MS OS via Bootcamp (with the hassle of saving to an external drive for file exchange between OSs)
   3) Choose a Mac & run Vue on an MS OS via Fusion or Parallels allowing both OSs to run side by side with seamless transfer of files (my undertanding from the promotional literature).
3. Choose a Mac & see if the soon to be released 'Snow Leopard' version of Mac OSX provides the promised framework for easy programming in multi-threaded 64bit (& e-on take advantage of it) !

Spoilt for choice really!   ☺