Traditionaly, 90% of ALL PROGRAMS were written for IBM processors.

Only the most commercially marketable trickled down to MAC, at an increased markup in price.

The entire world is going through another re-generation with everything moving to 64 and dual processers.

The advice I have been given given from pros is....make do with what you have, or purchase a temporary $500 laptop with programs installed .....but do not consider any purchases "permanent" or "major" until after January 2007 (which means summer 2007) and then go top end....to take you through the next decade.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

running win98 and a few visits to the Library of Congress requires a scan and defrag....and I keep dual disk less than 50% full for speed.