Poser has not had a substantial improvement in years. (I have Poser 5 as well as P4/PP, and I like it and use it, but I don't consider it a major improvement.) Poser needs regular upgrades that make use of the increasing power of the hardware and software. Someone told me that video RAM doesn't matter to Poser. You gotta be kidding! Video card memory makes a huge difference with just about every other Windows app, especially games, but Poser isn't designed to take advantage of it? (I assume this means hyperthreading doesn't matter, either.) Maybe CL's new owner will change things, and start truly upgrading Poser...but what if they don't? Poser could end up the equivalent of a DOS program in a Windows world. Yeah, it works...but not very well. We need alternatives. We need competition. We need a company that's willing to move Poser (or an equivalent program) into the 21st century.