Woohoo! I just unboxed my shiny new 17" iMac Core Duo, 512MB RAM. The first app I installed was Carrara 5.02 Std. I did a couple quick renders and here's my initial impression: it's faster than my old machine! Now, my old machine is a B&W G3/350 with a processor upgrade to a G4/800 so it better be faster than that old beast. B^) C5 is dual processor aware, so you get 2 rendering squares going. Very nice. A few timings. These are from the scenes in the browser. I just opened the document switched to the render room and rendered. No settings were changed. Water & Caustics: 1:00 Palm Trees: 2:20 Lava: 2:36 That's all for now. I'm off to load this critter up with stuff. - Jasen.