Ooops, forgot to comment on the thread. 1) I have no idea about Macs other than what I'm told. Which is, great for graphics, naff for everything else. Again, I say that I don't know, so I don't have an opinion. When I bought this PC 8 months ago (-ish) it was the fastest single-CPU box available. Three months later it, er, wasn't. So why fuss over a few MHz here and there? 2) I use Poser4 and a very old version of Cinema 4D for all my modelling. C4D allows you to create all sorts of complex models (if you have the patience) but also has a great tool called "magnet" that allows you to mould any object like a piece of putty, even Poser models. I do post in Photopaint 9. Occasionally I might do some text or regular shape-type-things in Illustrator10, although the failings of Illustrator10 (knock knock Adobe, ever heard of ease of use????) make me not what to even try Photoshop.