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Ethan, Here is the second part of the message about Amiga video/animation etc. On the Mac, when you're ready to move to 24-bit, all the pieces are in place, not yet the case on the Amiga. And frame-grabbing equipment is not much pricier on the Mac than it is on the Amiga. Animation is another story. There is a wider range of animation software available on the Amiga, and you can do some pretty nice stuff even on the low priced Amigas (unlike the Mac, even the under $1k Amigas have color and a graphics co-processor). Animation stuff I've seen on the Mac tends to be pricey, complicated, and often doesn't look as good as stuff from cheaper, simpler Amiga systems. An animation hobbyist would probably prefer the Amiga. The ease of geting things out to video is another plus, since that is ultimately what you'd probably want to do with most animations. I am looking into some Mac->video possibilities right now in another thread, and there are some options available. But the Amiga is still ahead here in terms of selection, simplicity, economy, and design. By design I mean that the video circuitry in the Amiga itself and some aspects of the interface and architecture of the machine (like the fact that it's easy to hide menubars, or to keep another program running in the background (music, perhaps) without slowing down an animation) lend itself to this kind of thing.