William, You asked why, when hardware capacity has risen, why wouldn't performance? Pakled pretty much nailed it - all of horsepower in the world, in terms of hardware, won't help run bad code - it just makes errors faster. Since you will be doing the obvious (ditching win98), which will help dramatically with Poser's performance, there's not much more you can do. Perhaps when Poser 6 comes out, Poser's speed will become a function of your hardware speed. Right now, it's not - Poser's current speed is a function of it's own (at times, bad) code. Certainly, some things will help, and you WILL notice a performance jump with your new machine - and an even greater one when you get WinXP - but you need to tailor your expectations somewhat. Jack