Hi Michael,

> What are the hardware requirements for NX anyway
> - what would they say if you told them you wanted
> to run it on a $300 little netbook computer, probably just laugh?

They would laugh at that request :) not sure on minimum requirements, I heard of people running NX on all sorts of systems, the lowest spec pc I've heard was P4 3.4GHz, 2 GB RAM, and a GEFORCE 6800GT.
Siemens doesn't mention a minimum requirement they have a list of certified machines that their software is test on, this is where I don't want MoI to end up, so if your not running NX on a certified machine your support would be limited, because the pc configuration you have wasn't tried, tested and certified.
One thing I have to admit the certification list is long http://support.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com/online_library/certification/ but still that's not the point, freedom of choice I say.

> It's a big focus for MoI to try and reduce such
> overhead and just let you draw more freely...

That's the reason I'm still here :) I shouldn't say any more until you've tuned up the fitting tolerance area further, and I know it will improve, then we'll continue this conversation later.......or maybe not.

Cheers