i'm running osx 10.4 tiger 2ghz only 512 mb ddr sdram, using poser6. would like to upgrade to 7 because i believe it has lip sinc incorporated. is this true or is there another way to use poser 6 and use a third party lip sinc. i have heard stories that running 7 on my current mac set up could fry my system any comments.

I run Poser 7 on my powerbook 1.67 ghz, with 1.5 gig ram............ OS 10.4.8. Works a treat. Much better than P6 did ....that crashed fairly often and ran erratically and renders were very slow with firefly.. Can't help with the lipsync query. Have you looked through the info at E-Frontiers site ? Btw, I do think you will have trouble with only that much ram.... thats what might cause you problems, not Poser 7 itself. Get more if you can ! Try asking this in the Macintosh forum here too.

I agree with Gini, put more ram in to the Mac. It's worth it ! In my PowerMac G4 i have 2GHz (=the maximum i think) and in my PowerMac G5 i have 2.5GHz installed. Never have had any problems with slow renderings and workflows so far. Am currently also still using Poser 6 so i cannot help you with the lipsync... sorry... Wim

Marky77, if you're using Poser 6 and you want to lip sync, your best (and perhaps only realistic) option is Daz's Mimic. Mimic Lite should siffice. A better option is to buy P7 (lipsyncing built in, and it works fine) and get yourself some more RAM no matter what you do. Trying to run any 3D program on 512MB of RAM is like trying to suck a milkshake through a coffee stirrer. It's almost pointless. You didn't say what type of 2 Ghz machine you had. If it's a G4 or even G5 single processor, P6 plus Mimic plus some RAM is a still a practical option, though P7 might still be better in any case. If it's an Intel Mac dual core, then you would be missing a huge opportunity for an order-of-magnitude performance boost if you didn't get P7 (and some more RAM) ASAP because P7 is optimized for that type of machine and runs immensely faster than P6 on a G4/G5 single core machine. 2 Ghz of RAM is decent padding -- I have 4 gigs, but it's on a Mac Pro 2.66 x 2 Duo Core. Your RAM should be cheaper. SS

There have been a number of users who have issues with older (anything non Intel) macs. There seems to be a big slowdown in Poser 7. I have seent this and gone back to Poser 6 totally. Just letting you know in advance.

ye cheers everyone, i shall for now struggle on with P6 and get mimic, my financial situation means i am a little way of the osx upgrade, looks like i have to move up to 70 hours a week at work. on another note any of you used magpie pro (lipsinc), got it in evaluation mode, would appreciate any feedback. cheers all