I have a related question about Carrara performance. Right now I have 384 megs of ram on my laptop. I think Ive allocated about 200 to Carrara. My hard drive probably has no more than a gig of spcae left on it. 1) does Carrara work a little like photoshop in terms of using a scratch disk? i.e. do I need plenty of free space in order for things to go as smooth as possible? Would i see an increase in generel performance if I had more disk space? 2) Would it really make a difference if I bought more ram? Right now I have a 128 and 256 in my pismo and was thinking of swapping the 128 for a 512. Im going to be using my laptop more in the coming months and since I cant afford to just buy a tower I was wondering if it would be worth while to make the above mentioned upgrades. Thanks for the advice everyone, I appreciate it. Cheers, Max