The great 64-bit changeover looks like it's going to be evolutionary rather than revolutionary.  Sure -- it's the wave of the future -- but it gives every indication of being a slow tide.  It's going to take a while to convince the enormous PC user base that it's time for all of them to fork over their hard-earned cash to the tune of several 1000's of dollars in order to replace their 1-year-old (or newer) 32-bit PC.  It'll be the pros and serious hobbyists (and dummies) who will spend the big bucks up front for the latest technology.  The rest of us will wait it out for awhile until we see the prices for a 64-bit box come down -- which they will do.

I had a friend a number of years ago who dropped $12,000 on a 386/33 -- "486 ready".  About a year later, he could have bought the same thing for approx. half the price.  Six months after that, for about 1/3 of the price.  Nowadays the thing belongs in a junkyard.........to me, I'll wait until that shiny-new plasma screen TV doesn't cost $11,000 anymore.  Now I can likely get that TV for around $2000-$3000.  In another few months I should be able to land it for under $1000.

Same thing will hold true for the 64-bit boxes, I suspect.  I'll wait.  I'm in no hurry.

As for P6 -- I initially had some trouble with the original release.  But the successive SR's have fixed pretty much everything.  So I'm satisfied.  100%?  No......but when are we ever?  All in all, Poser is a fantastic deal.  And it's fun.  So I tend to view it as a win-win situation.  But that's just me.  Of course -- they say that everyone is entitled to their own opinion -- or so I've heard, anyway.  As in: "in my opinion, the earth is flat".  Opinions like that.  They are entitled to them.

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