Then again, the machine this particular machine is replacing was a G4 350 MHz Sawtooth/512 RAM, a 7-year old machine. Everything is relative. ;-) -- David R. Boag, DDS spikedds at bellsouth.net http://www.southatlantadental.com/ On Aug 26, 2006, at 12:21 PM, Stroller wrote: > I was thinking really in terms of things like minimising / > maximising and repainting windows, Expose and all that sort of > stuff. I think that all of these operations will us the GPU on a > Mac, and as I said, even a small performance increase could make > the machine feel "visibly snappier" even for just routine tasks. > > Stroller.