I am not sure how having a machine that is MORE capable is a bad thing... the same is true about OS's. Let's face it, Apple never really did manage to get OS9 to be a modern OS and many people simply couldn;t live with the quirks anymore. No protected memory? No real multitasking? No robust virtual memory? I have to pre-allocate memory to an app? I don't think so :) It is good that you have manage to work around the flaws int he OS virtualsite, and maybe for you it isn't a problem but the simple fact is they were glaring flaws - not virtues. Me, I >LIKE< being able to leave something running for a few days and still have my machine... with render times for advanced scenes running in the 11 hour range for me it is pretty nice that I can still run Word or Photoshop. This also allows me to use some of my machiens as a small renderfarm without having to dedicate the box to that task.