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<<…I know a guy who has 1gb of RAM and he said he had a scene that required a swap file! :)…>> Yeek ! What type of scenes was he rendering ? What type of thing do you model ? <<…The question is, will this company give me enough jobs to justify the Mac? If I could find a modeller for the PC that works with NURBS it might be a better solution (less expensive) for me since I could use my existing PC. Unfortuantely there is no Sketch for the PC…>> The question about how much work you'll get is obviously a tricky one – the rule here is don't commit to any significant expense without a written contract <g>. Perhaps you could rent a PowerMac, for a couple of weeks or month or however long it'll take to do the first job. You might even be able to use the RAM from your PC in the Mac which would save you some money whether you rent or buy. That'll let you try out Sketch and life on the Mac without having to jump into a new platform. After the first job you'll have a better idea of Sketch's and a Mac's strengths and limitations and perhaps more importantly, you'll have a better idea about how working for those clients might go in the future. There isn't a DOS/Windows version of Sketch, true, but there must be NURBS based modellers in the PC world. I'm curious – why the requirement to work with Sketch and/or NURBS ? Most clients don't care what software you use to create the images so long as the results look good. It's usually the images they care about, not the process or software. Do they want to take the model you create and play around with it themselves rather than just have the rendered images ? <<…I've just read about Mac Clones from "Power Computing" and their machines. Maybe I should wait for them….>> Never mind the Power Computing clones. What I'm waiting for is the DayStar Genesis MP. upto 4 601 or 604 chips ! 3D rendering is a natural for multiprocessor treatment or course. Hopefully their system extensions will enable Sketch etc to use the multiprocessors without needing an upgrade to Sketch. But I doubt it 🙁 Still, multiple 604 chips, and because fo the plug in architecture, you mighty be able to swop the 604's out and replace them with 620's in due course 🙂 >> David <<