Zane Sounds like what you need is a cluster of Mac minis on a dedicated network. Don't know how well VNC would gather them all to the same screen. David -- David Ledger - Freelance Unix Sysadmin in the UK. HP-UX specialist of hpUG technical user group (www.hpug.org.uk) david.ledger at ivdcs.co.uk www.ivdcs.co.uk