Let's say, tactfully, operaguy, that sounds like an unwise decision -- but your decision to make. Mac systems are really far better for the money than PCs... especially if what you want to do is create rather than fiddle with the system. (By the way, by all accounts faster G4 systems, with much improved memory bandwidth -- the only real technical advantage of current high end PC systems -- will be out before Poser 5 ships even for PCs. And even if Poser doesn't do multiprocessor rendering, you'll still find a second processor doing some work to help you out.) And the way to stop developers like CL from treating the best computing platform as "follow-along-eventually" is for more people to buy based on quality rather than mindlessly following Monopo$$oft. Not the other way around. As we used to say in Chemistry... "if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."