All right, you guys, way cool! I love this place. In answer to your query - I do have Home XP. So what you are saying is 1.8 ghz is fast enought and I should upgrade to a gig of RAM if I want to kick it on Poser 5? This has been a real eye-opener because I went into a chat the first week I joined and I asked the question Poser 4 or Poser 5?, and everyone said Poser 4. I went to Amazon.com which sells everything under the sun and read their customer critiques on Poser 5, and I don't think I read a single favourable review which was really dis-heartening, because I really wanted to get it. Even knowing absolutely nothing about Poser, it just sounded so cool, especially about the part where I could scan a friend's photo and create a model with their face; now that's worth the price of ticket alone. So I started to read more about it and I got this feeling that if you had a computer with less than 256 of RAM you were going to crash; anything less than a Pentium 4 or 2.0 ghz clock and you were going to be waiting an eternity for your renders to matierialize. You guys are the first positive remarks on Poser 5. Keep it coming. Additional question: I read that people complained that they had to go back and forth to too many scroll down windows, supposedly (I'm para-phrasing here) leaving them in the dark as to how the render was turning out until the final product was complete. Did that make sense? I got this feeling that one couldn't see everything they were doing until it was too late. Anyway, more, more, more responses! You guys are so cool to do this for me. Ciao, Nikita xoxo