" I fell asleep but now i am awake and my G4 is still there... And what the hell is BIOS?" even mac has a bios, just because apple hides it doesn't mean it's not there. no bios, the system has no clue how to access ram, the hd, nothing. mandrake now has available a version of mandrake linux, ported for the mac hardware. want to see what osx was supposed to be? get this. linux is a port of unix for pc platform, but since mandrake 6.1 and redhat 6.1, you do not need to even see the command prompt if you don't want to. they give you the option of booting straight into a gui as BOTH win and mac FORCE you to do. don't want to be a unix sysadmin? get linux, it automates it all, better than winblows does. and is as stable, or more stable than mac os.( win nt and mac os and unix/linux are all very similiar under the hood ...command prompt tool set) single button mouse? I use a three button mouse, why would I want to even loose one button (win) never mind 2? and remember, MAYA'S Linux version is better than either mac or win version. ~G~ as the os is better. according to alias wavefront, the producers of MAYA.