turn my nose up at it because it costs a LOT more for comparable processing power A lot of that "comparable processing power" is spent on running your system, in case you didnt know. Mac architecture is such that it only requires half the megahertz resources to do what a PC does: this has been shown in countless comparison tests of, for example, intricate Photoshop computations. So yeah, on the surface it looks like youre getting less. Youre actually getting more. Insofar as price, consider how much time you lose waiting for that reboot. Tell me its worth the price difference. The 15" monitor... well, agree with you there, to a point. On my PC I have a 21" monitor. But Ive found that when it comes to image display, what I get on my 15", 72dpi Mac is truer in color, and -- for reasons that I dont understand -- command just as much percentage of the screen area as the 21" inch. Go figure. The Poser layout works out to be about the same, with the same access to dials and windows. The games -- well, lets put it this way. I dont have either my Mac or my PC for games. Theyre work machines. Thats all Im interested in.