Quote - Sounds like you just need one additional computer with good graphics and a fast processor to do the renderings - quad core or better - while you're able to work in photoshop on another.

a rendering machine only needs a fast multi-core processor and enough RAM. any modern onboard video is more than sufficient (and will save you $150-300ish), the only thing a video card has any effect on in Poser is your viewport speed and some of the advanced OpenGL viewport features, none of which are necessary to work in Poser, much less to just render scenes.
i have a remote renderer that sits in the corner and doesnt even have a monitor or keyboard attached, just a power cable (no ethernet either, just an internal wireless adapter) -- i administer it remotely from my main PC's desktop. these days you could slap together a nice quad core/8 gig DDR2 (DDR3 is still too pricey IMO) 64-bit rendering machine for quite cheap. while its not a renderfarm by a long shot, you could at least let it render away for however long it takes while you can work freely on your main desktop without any lag and with the ability to restart/sleep/shutdown.

i would guess that if images are taking you 2+ days to render you would get far more mileage from actually optimizing your shaders, lighting/shadow and render settings than you will from any hardware upgrades (assuming your PC is relatively up to date to begin with).  Poser seems to make the poorest use of hardware upgrades of any program i have ever used, but some tiny changes to lighting or render settings can increase your render speed exponentially. that said, the 64-bit 'background render' in Poser Pro seems to be much faster (2-3x) than the standard renderer.

Quote - Smithmicro will proably be the death of Poser they will milk it to death and then dump it as it takes a drop in sales. thats their MO, and only my opinion.

i agree. this has been the MO of every company that took over Poser in the past few years: prey on customer hope to sell the next overhyped, buggy, hastily-slapped together version then quickly dump it to the next group of entrepreneurs. they have absolutely no long-term interest in Poser and are just want to milk as much money out of their investment in as short a time as possible.

i never thought id be saying this, but thank god for D|S and Carrara. luckily it is in Daz's best interest to keep the Poser market thriving so as a worst case scenario there is always D|S as a fallback.
i havent seen any major improvements in Poser since Poser 5 (and all of the new Poser 5 features were 3rd party utilities/programs hacked into the Poser 4 engine like the Tempest renderer, FaceGen Studio, etc). most of the changes since then have been either bug-fixes or features that have been industry standard for 1-2 decades and should have been included in the first place.