Quote - Excellent Info thanks a lot. I have not used C4D as yet but may try it soon if I do I will buy some more Ram too. Whats the render engine like compared to Vue? 

In terms of memory, you may want to read this article. Even though it is Mac related, it is a good general read about memory use in general. Keep in mind that even if an application is 32 bit, you will find more RAM useful if there are more applications opened or processes working in the background.

www.interrupt19.com/2009/06/15/os-x-memory-usage-explained/

forums.luxology.com/discussion/topic.aspx

The other article I referenced to show a user of MODO that upgraded RAM found it better as well. There are some good posts in that thread too.

In terms of your C4D question, I am still very much a beginner and could not give you a real firm answer as to which render engine is better. I have played around with it some and found it to be a VERY good program in terms of animating, importing Poser figures with plug-ins, community, etc. The guys over there are GREAT and have even supported both Mac and PC with 64 bit and written their code very well. Personally, I view both Vue and C4D and two totally different applications though. Vue is a superior scene render program and C4D more so for animation and such.

Hope that helps some, best of luck in your work.

Jeff

Development on: Mac Pro 2008, Duel-Boot OS - Snow Leopard 10.6.6 & Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit, 2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon , 10GB 800 MHz DDR2 RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT.