Sad realization

So I've been working on some animations for an Art professor out of ASU for ASU's new Skysong campus, it's been really fun and I've been working in Maya with windows XP. I've noticed recently that when rendering out of Maya it really takes a lot of Processing power and even more Ram to make sure the render runs smoothly. As you may or may not know, unfortunately windows XP can only really utilize 3 Gigs of RAM which means even if you go out and get 4 Gigs for your awesome machine only 3 Gigs will actually be used. So you make think that that is the sad realization I came to, but believe me it's much worse than that. Many of you may know that I despise Macintosh and always have, but I found out something today that shook the very foundations of my Microsoft loving world. On the MAC side you can setup your computer with as much Memory as you want and the Mac OS will actually use all of it. So If I went to Mac I could actually have 16 or even more gigs of RAM and Maya would use every bit of it for my Rendering. It's a sad thing that windows hasn't caught on to this fact even with Windows Vista you can only use 4 Gigs. Now don't get me wrong I love windows, but it's so disappointing that in the Rendering world the Mac will actually out perform the PC every time.

A Sad Sad Realization.