I agree with this. Notwithstanding the current marketing difficulties that Apple is enduring, I think the Mac platform will remain the most intuitive and artist- friendly environment for some years to come. (I do realize that at the "application level", such programs as Photoshop 4.0, which are written to appear and behave similarly at the user interface, it is the underpinnings of the operating system which are still more straightforward in a Mac than on a PC). Mike Rothman