Something else to consider.. once you start buying plugins for DS, that free prcetag vaporizes pretty fast.

Also utilities like Shader Spider, Particles, Philc's poser toolbox and wardrobe wizard2 poser plugin can't be used if you have DS, and the plugin version appears to have features that Ds does not.

Take a look at some of the amazing shaders that baggins bill has created in the poser material room, and you'll be amazed.

While some people will tell you DS's renderer is better, others will tell you poser's is. I think that's a subjective thing, and ask people who use dynamics if they would live without it, and you'll hear a resounding NO!

Maybe a year from now I'd consider replacing poser with DS, but not now. And for what it's worth, I've never had poser 7 crash on me yet, and I've never really had any issues with it at all.

Some people just HATE poser, and would replace it with anything given the chance.

Another possibility is the new carrera available from Daz. Again, it's missing come critical poser 7 features, however it does add additional features of it's own to the mix.

Something else to consider.. most products work 100% in poser.. and less so in DS or carrerra or the like. Also, dazupdates DS sometime it seems on a weekly basis.. while that might initially sound great, there are issues in some builds, with features that are broken, and then restored in a later build. It's been liek that for over 2 years now, so I don;t see that changing anytime soon.

Personally? I couldn't live without P7.

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.