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Hi Tom. > The ShaBLAMM, a RISC based board for VESA VL-BUS PC's looked like a very cost-effective solution if you have the PC. I've done some reading on this unit, and although it looks promising, I was let down by the specs. It will render at about 2.7 to 3.9 times the speed of a 4000 40/40. Since the board runs at more than twice the clock speed (100mhz ), I didn't find that to be much of a jump in performance considering that it uses a MIPS R4600. I was wondering if the vesa bus was the weak link, or if the high overhead of Windozzzze NT was sucking the life out of it. Could be the Ethernet link, too. Maybe all three ? Don't get me wrong, it's a cool item, and the Ram alone is worth half of the price, but I was expecting it to be about 10 to 15 times as fast as an A4000 40/40. >DraCo: Hardware Compatability: All that are custom chipset independant. That means no Toaster……No surprise here.I wonder how it handles software that adresses the chip set like Dpaint IV, Scala and Brilliance ? Lack of support would make it useless to me. JMHO…. Mike Brennan, Sir Render. SYSTEM FAILURE: could not execute command "RESUME PRODUCTION" could not find file " NEW OWNER"