Well, I have to say that on my modest system, the latest D/S release runs much much faster than poser 5. Only 10s to load program, less time than Poser took to get off its intro screen. I would call its interface unartistic but streamlined. it is much much faster to navigate and access content. As it is beta there a many aspects that I would call "buggy" but I really do see it as my replacement for poser. If you look at it as one tool of a suite,(including bryce 5, PS8 and a simple modeler) i see it easily replacing slow clunky poser 5 in the very near future. At least on my desktop.