well, i've just received a new Vue 4 CD for Mac OS X (the first CD i had was damaged, and unreadable), and after installing i can say that this version is really buggy. The application quits in editing materials, sky, clouds, point of view... The Apple Guidelines are not implemented (Cmd-D to go to the desktop don't work as other keyboards shortcuts - Non standard interface), and the mac PZ3 files can not be imported. I will try disabling OpenGL. The only good point i've seen is the astounding fastness of the rendering. I was a bryce fan. I was. But Bryce is definetely too slow... :)

ooops. sorry, you are right. Bryce is developped under windows... if the beta versions i've tried don't lie.. :

First, apologies for my bad english.... i agree Willf about the altivec. And it seems that poser don't like networking very much. I use a cable modem and i have to disabled tcp/ip to get the full speed, ot it will crash. Remember also that poser seems to be developped under windows, and ported to MacOS, so some of the code are not very well implemented. And if the New G4 is really powerful, some apps don't work well with it... In some cases, a G4/400 is slower than a G3/400. About he video card, the ATI shipped in the G4 is not as good as it seems. Another Video Card can have better performances...