I don't know how powerful Daz Studio is going to be in release 1, but I believe its not supposed to be earth shaking. Daz said that the advanced features and import/export plug-ins will come in later releases. So my advice is to pick up the October editon of Digit magazine and get the full version of Carrara 1.1 which is probably going to have more muscle. Well at lease until version 2 comes out. Unless it comes with the Lightwave plug-in I am going to have to stay with the Pro Pack anyways.