Well, as long as my Mac will still be useful in another 2 or 3 years, I guess it'd be okay. I keep reading where the "slower" Macs are actually faster than the fastest ones out now. True? Untrue? All I know is I just want me a Mac and the fastest, best one i can get in my budget. Maybe I'm asking the wrong question here but what have you heard about the new processors?

And what you're saying is most all plugins will work in Maya for OSX with little trouble, as long as it doesn't have to be recompiled for the certain OSes? I'm still just so excited about possibly getting a new Mac, regardless of what the world says about them (or even what my wife thinks... she's a PC diehard!). I mean, sheesh, you should see what I'm running Maya on now (eMachines 533 MHz, 192 MB RAM). Any thing has to be faster than that!