I'm gonna jump in for help-- I'm probably gonna have to use a laptop for Poser [leg and back problems are limiting my desptop time] The one I'm looking at is 1.6GMhw, 512Mb memory and 40G hard drive. I really hesitate in partitioning that 40 G, do you think I can get out of it? I'll be running PhotoShop, PSP7, Painter Classic and a hideously bloated Poser 4-- it's almost at 9G right now. New laptop, it'll be XP. Emily