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... Only firefly was ported to 64 bit - so all in all the speed differential is miniscule.....

But porting to 64 bit has nothing to do with speed. Usually a 64 bit version of an application is a little bit faster, but not that much.
The 64 bit is about memory. I already rendered scenes in P7Pro that were just plain impossible to render in P7, using 7 GB of address space.
I haven't tested yet what happens when FFRender needs more memory than is physically available, but if the programming is even halfway decent, it'll just requrest virtual memory - and should be able to use up to 128 GB of it.
Bugger the speed. It's the memory management! And that, for me, is the main feature of P7Pro. The PoserFusion plugins (Reiss BodyStudio unchanged, used to be $180 per - flaky and unstable - plugin), no, they're not even worth 2 cents. Collada export - haven't tested it yet, but could be useful. Normal mapping and gamma correction are minor improvements.

All in all, P7Pro is an upgrade to P7. At a stiff price, agreed, but not as extravagant as some posters seem to think it is.

Oh, and Pro? P7Pro is DEFINITELY NOT a professional application. It misses far to many essential professional features, like an SDK, a plugin architecture, full scriptability, and more. Integration into Max/Maya at the level of Poser integration with Vue/Cinema4D (via InterPoser Pro), well, that would be a nice start. But those Reiss BodyStudio plugins are total crap. Functionality is far too limited, and unstable to boot.

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