Ed, I hear you. I understand that photoshop is the only application out there that will actually see better performance with over 512 megs of ram. I don't use it myself, but I always say the more ram the merrier. My current box is an Athalon 1600+ XP with 512 megs of PC2100 ram }> I've always thought it would be cool to have a gig of ram <grins>