poser 5 rocks ,yea I had some problems with the initial release , but after the 2.1 patch it is well worth it , I think alot of problems come from the steep learning curve of some of the advancements it took me awile to get used to the nodes such ,and I'm still not there yet but I'm willing to learn , and be patient I built my own system with a 1.3 gig duron ,256 megs ddr ,win xp, and one thing I did notice win xp has a ton of programs running in the background and after I turned some of them off my system as a whole ran much faster including poser 5. I'm not sold on DAZ Studio its not here, not tested so I'm sure there will be bugs in it ,as there are in all programs but I cannot consider DAZ Studio the savior of poserdom when all I've seen are cool screen shots. DAZ did a smart thing by making it's core free , thereby making sure it can run on as many systems as possible without and fix any problems before modules are released ,it also gives them less accountabilty when something goes wrong ,because it is free and public beta material.