Tony, The noise aside how is the new G4 ? What kind of performance does it have compared to old systems. Have you ever ran xbench on you system? If you have the time give xbench a run it will do some tests and calculations and will rate your system with a number. To get xbench go to < http://www.xbench.com >. I have run xbench on my computer and I get a number of 77.80 for a G4 500 MHz single processor system. I am curious to see how fast the newer machines are compared to older system. Dan Brieck Jr.