[if you really wanted the best desktop right now, you would have already bought a G5 anyway, right?] Naw, I'm just hung up on the Mac's firewire stuff! Piece by piece I'll be getting there. "A PCTosh" Little things like Dual Raptor 10,000rpm, Sata / Raid / Striped 1/0 drives. A single Sata drive to 1394b bridgeboard, to Firewire 800. (for real-time DV rendering & backup.) 1mb ecc ddr extreme 400mhz. ram. All that's left is the mobo & cpu. The P4 3.4ghz, and 800mhz. FSB should do in a pinch I guess. Or maybe I'll wait a little bit longer . . . . . . . Treeman