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Great! Thanks for the pertinent info! I'm glad to hear that all the systems performed similarly – it makes deciding that much easier! The Alpha systems are very appealing, but about $4K more than I was planning on spending. Of course the performance would be 2-3 times better, also! While the MIPS systems are more economical, they suffer the same problem that the Alpha has when compared to the Pentium platform. Neither has the level of acceptance that the Pentium has received, and there's less software available. Then there's always the PowerPC. Certain biased sources continue to tout the power of its FPU, but since neither LW nor WinNT has been ported, I don't have a good basis for comparison. Oh well, thanks again for the useful tips! Erik Flom