Keep a watch on the websites. They sometimes offer side-grades. In other words, if you own Poser you get a special discount, or if you own Bryce or whatever special they have going. You could also go for the normal Vue 4, only $199, with Mover 4 ($89) which only has multi processor support on Win NT/2000. But it still allows you to set up a render farm across multi platform machines. It is the most useful software I have ever bought, and I can't recommend it enough. Damn, I sound like I work for their marketing department.