jealous? i guess i forgot to mention that they also bought us the nvidia titanium card! and it is all kinds of sick. i have so much processing power at my finger tips that i spent the first week pretty much in shock. it is quite a change from the g3 266 i have at home. i'm glad to here that there is a noticeable speed boost on the mac, because the performance i was getting was very similar to that of the 1ghz pentium 4 that i played with c2 on. i was a little depressed. hopefully the patch puts my mac back on top. -scott