Thanks for all the info. Let me annoy you just a bit further: What's the scoop on the Sun Blade 100? It looks like a nice little cheap workstation. I'm sure the U 30 would kick the crap out of it, but I do have a lot of FireWire storage (nearly 1 TB) and it's got 1394 ports. John from anysystem.com said he could configure the U30 with a 300 MHz proc. Suggestions?