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} I kind of figured that my next machine would be an IBM thinkpad PPC running } OS2, when and if such a thing comes out. Is this in the cards? I heard } that PPC's consume less power than the Pentium. Is this still true? What } ever happened to IBMs vow to stay away from Pentiums? It must have taken } them HOURS to eat their words :). More like three seconds, I'd say. I can understand their corporate strategy not to be boxed in by Intel, but you have to be pragmatic. As for where things are going, I don't think we're very far away from a fast PPC or Pentium, truecolour, 1k*1k TFT, hardware MPEG/digital video machine. I would be really surprised if such a box is more than a year away. Reality Engine level graphics in two or less. The question is whether the software will keep up. I once thought UNIX hung together by a thread until I started playing with DOS/Windows and the like. The sheer amount of software to play with is exciting, but the quality of the base OS's on PC's leave a lot to be desired. I have been able to do "serious" work with Linux, however. But unless something magical happens, I can't see that Linux and other PC UNIX implementations can keep up the pace, especially if they go beyond the Intel architecture. Eugene Fiume.