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James, I believe you have already answered a lot of your own questions. The high-end stuff basically offers perhaps more functionality in modeling and animation plus ray tracing and scripting language. I've always felt that the main advantage of SGI applications was in their utilization of the interactive hardware. You could indeed (apples to apples) render frames more expeditiously with a number of Pentiums. I like most of the SGI software a lot, but it is true (fortunately / unfortunately ?) that your *_average_* client won't know the difference looking at a rendered animation. BILL