Oh that I were fortunate enough not to know! Mind you, if one orders a MacPro one can now make a single processor build-to-order option, which makes it kinda affordable... No, ~/Applications is not present on my G5 running 10.4.11. I was a little surprised by this - I have definitely seen it on some Mac systems in the past, however, and thought it was normal. Perhaps, as Richard H Stoddard conjectures, the folder is only created when a second user is added. Stroller. On 11 Jan 2008, at 03:41, Peter Sealy wrote: > Just a thought. Perhaps the existence of a Home Applications folder > is a pre-Intel thing? > > On Fri 11 Jan,, at 2:23 PM, Michael Elliott wrote: > >> All of this talk made me curious. Sure enough, when I checked my >> Home folder on my MacBook, there is no Applications folder. But >> there IS an Application folder in the Home folder on my iMac. Weird.