Hello leedolman, If your budget is quite good, then why not go for a MAC, you can get a mac even on the finance option now, secondly mac's are famous for music production and movie stuff, you can easily get a super spec mac for the budget you have it might go over 1000 GBP, but would be great. If you still wanna stick to the PC, then i would recommend go for a Intel Motherboard and processor, put as much memory in it and a Matrox graphics card www.matrox.com get a external USB2 or firewire hard drive which would even allow you to boot through the USB2 www.storagedepot.co.uk go on www.apple.com and have a look, if you are frm UK you can select the UK store and look up prices and stuff.. regards and take care Mutahir