All my favorite software runs under 400Mb and was written before 1998 Poser excepted. Best W/P is Write Now, best photo editor is ColorIt!, best paining software is Apprentice, best drawing software is the original Smart-Draw, best OS GUI is WinDOS; this is not nostalgia. These apps are superior to Word Perfect, Photoshop, Painter, illustrator, Windows and Mac OS in design and functionality. Economy of code encourages tight and creative coding, bloat encourages sloppyness, legacy code, intractable bugs, instability, useless features and intellectual inertia. People are suckered into spending more and more on platforms to run huge bloated code that is a mess with seldom any increase in functionality. Poser 6 nodes is the only new functionality of any value that I have encountered in a new program. ArtRage by Ambient design (1.4Mb) is the only quality entirly new app I have seen since 1997... it smashes Painter into the ground. Bloating instead of elegance in coding is a shame, a shame on the coders, it is marketing and business that are responsible... this I know, I have a friend who retired from Adobe before he was 35 on account of the business dept. and the shoddy coding they demanded. I very often use very old versions of software because they are more stable and more functional even when I have foolishly purchased the latest version of a bloatware - or should I say the latest BETA build! The Poser 6 sr-1 was being shipped practically before the Poser 6 release ;) Sr-2 was need right away and then there were the content "updates". Kludgy programing is bad programing. IMHO :) People like stahlratte can shatter V3 with their Posette work!