With the implementation of network rendering I think animations render quite speedily, if you have a broadband connection you can even render over the net, maybe this is just a PC problem on rendering? I'm running OSX 10.1.4 and OS 9.2.2 on the macs and they both run just fine, of course setting higher premium settings will slow it down for sure, but that happens with all 3D apps, it's the nature of the beast, if we all had a 50 bank of puters all rendering on one thing, sure it would go quickly, but like the web it's a trade off of quality or speed. Nough said on this subject, this horse has been beat to death 50 times over already LMAO!!!:-0

Do atleast one thing a day that scares the hell outta ya!!