Quote - a mac pro maxxed out for 3D will cost more than $10,000, in case anybody asks.

That's only if you buy everything through Apple...which, unless you're a trust fund kid, is just lunacy. As long as you don't buy the things you don't need to buy through Apple - like monitors, memory, and hard drives - it won't cost nearly that much. You can get better components much cheaper through NewEgg. All you need from Apple is the machine, the OS, and the processors.

But all of that aside, I guess there's not much experience or knowledge around what Poser can and can't handle with quad cores? It's just a trial and error thing right now?