Brian S - I work at home with a PII 450 with 256 megs of RAM and I find the rendering times acceptable, though not great. I, however, may be more forgiving since I work in a game production environment and know how long ray-traced 1028x768 renders take even on high-end systems. The images I work with take about a half-hour to an hour to render with no anti-aliasing, and overnight with all the bells and whistles. But, that's just me. :-) TomD