raises  hand and leaps up and down   LOL

Advantages:

1.  You  can use some conforming clothes like the Morphing Fantasy Dress, in the cloth room (this is what motivated me to upgrade to version 6);

2.  IBL lights;

3.  Renders actually cancel when you press "cancel";

4.  You can compress object files;

5.  Gather Node so you can make things glow without lights;

7.  You don't have to edit a file in order to see unlimited thumbnails;

8.  Area render (you can render just a small spot to see what a texture looks like instead of having to render the whole thing;

9.  You can set up render settings and save the presets.

Disadvantages:

1.  Lights.  More than 8 lights don't preview well and leaves the preview window nearly black, so older light sets with more than 8 lights while they will render ok, don't preview well at all;

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi