ahh, put apps other than Poser dont have the same issues as Poser when bending or rigging figures , because they use a different rigging method ,or weightmaps (ugh) to do it .   V4 has attempted to fix rigging issues with built in magnets and that has been at least partially successful.  Cant blame Daz really, they are stuck with following Posers rigging method , or breaking with that market.

I can sort of see where you are coming from , certainly a quad core processor on a 64 bit OS with lots of memory is getting to a price a keen gamer or hobbiest could afford so heavy polygon models with huge textures and such are more practicable , but the very keen hobbiest could go with 3dsmax , lightwave or cinema4d and get better results if they are prepared to spend some time learning .