Quote - Yeah, I'm still on a PPC, running tiger... you can probably see what I mean. short of dumping alot of my pricey apps (PS, ZBrush, etc.) that luckily I managed to accumulate via friendships in college I'm kind of stuck in a time warp limbo as I can't afford to purchase these incredibly expensive toys.

I'm stuck in exactly the same time warp haha! I have a new iMac as well as my old laptop (thankfully not as old as yours lol), but don't use it much because I don't think I can run any of my old software on it (even if I could, I'd have to delete it from my laptop first because you can only have one registered copy or whatever, and I don't want to do that.)