Bluecity, thank you for this detailed information. My system is a Compaq with a restore partition. I am not anxious to upgrade this machine as I hope with a royalties windfall coming up to maybe get a laptop for lifestyle reasons... what do you think I would need maybe in terms of a laptop if I want to run basicaly just PSP9 and Poser 6? and what do you think it would cost? Should I go to a Mac (I have not been able to aford one since 1998) and just replace the software I need (will CS give me an upgrade price I wonder?). What is the going Photoshop substitute for Mac? Thanks.