Hi,

first of all, whatever you dicide, you need the student socket 3290.3 for your MC-24 in order to let it talk with ANY sim. Your pc should have a reasonable motheboard of 1500-2500MHz - most important is the video card. In order to have some buffer for the latest developments, I would go for a 128 MB card because there are some news to come up early next year that really make fun with 128. NVidia od ATI dosn't really matter - this is a question of budget. As a minimum, a 32 MB card would do as well. Pls try to avoid the Geforce MC cards as their performance won't justify the price difference.

In your MAC environment I would have a look at these lovely barebone PC's like they are offered by [link=http://www.shuttlecomputer.com]Shuttle[/link] - small, powerfull and nothing more than you really need.

A few friends of mine are using a panel switching in order to use your MAC screen with the PC. Works fine but it will not work with ALL screens. My TFT has two inputs that can be used by MAC and PC simultaniously. Switching is done by mouseclick. In general, TFT is very much suitable. I'm using my Reflex on a laptop and and a desktop with a 19" TFT. Never regretted that decision a single second. The old TFT reservations come from budget 15" super market screens and they sometimes had problems with fast screen reneval at high contrast. Any regular "state-of-the-art" TFT doesn't have these problems.

What sim? Well, I'm the Reflex manufacturer so a recommendation won't help much. This is for others to recommend a product.

Cheers - wolfgang