A quarter-hour for a simple scene in draft mode is ridiculous.

This one took only a few minutes in production mode, at 1200x1600, with a couple of background props, transmapped hair, shadow maps, raytraced reflections, and polygon smoothing enabled.

I'm running on an Athlon XP 2000+ with 512MB of memory, incidentally.

Jenny Curtis Scott Kellogg, 21st Century Fox