Hello everyone! I've been a Mac user for over 7 years and will continue to be a big fan of apple products, but to run x-plane with great graphics at reasonable price tag PC is the way to go. I've been an IT service technician in the past for approximately 5 years and have built and tested lots of components and system configurations. This is what I have built for me for 1000 euro Specs Intel Core i5-6600 Skylake MSI H110I Pro, Socket-1151 Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 4GB ITX Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2133MHz 16GB Cooler Master Elite 110 Mini-ITX B Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB 2.5" Corsair H55 Hydro Series CPU Corsair CX 500M, 500W PSU Logitech Wireless Desktop MK330 OS Windows 8.1 pro Im extreamly pleased with frames and graphics that i get from this built Frame rates are superb with MD80. Have read complains of users with pretty HIGH PC specs complaining of frame rates. For me its not the case Setup Cockpit FPS Outside view CPU&GPU temperature in full load I know that in a post I told Jan that I'm not interested in investing in a new hardware, but for the love of x-plane and IXEG 737 why not!