Actually, P5 is draping cloth in the background while I'm surfing here. It seems to multitask quite properly since the SR1 patch (before that it was a pig, hogging system resources to itself--now it only hogs them from its own screed updates). I do have to watch what I'm doing because I only have 256Mb of RAM and P5 likes LOTS of memory, especially for hair. I'm not sure I'd want to try burning a CD on this machine, not while rendering in P5....it's only a 450Mhz K6-III+ But I do routinely surf the web, run Xnews and Pegasus and even occasional other apps with it in the background and it's well behaved in Win 2K pro...