Thanks for the feedback Daniel, Flipper, and Trevor. I have a 1 Ghz top of the line tibook, 60 ghz etc.. I do run VPC, have some OS 9 app's that are not mac os X ready. I do a lot of QTVR work (cubic and cylindrical panorama's etc..), so I have a lot of images that need to be stored before they go to cd or dvd. Trevor...what size partitions are you using for VPC? With the installer can I direct it to install OS 9.X on a different partition than the OS X? cheers, tim