HowieFarkes' work with Carrara is really amazing, not only the latest image but lots of them. I wonder how much of that 'splendour' is due to Carrara itself and how much is due to the fact that he's really good at it. I wonder because I don't see many other Carrara renders at the same level, and most are not even close. On the other hand, maybe the user base is still too small to have a fair impression.

I also don't like dongles. That's where I draw the line, no dongles for me. I had a fair amount of troubles with dongles at work (stolen, damaged, etc) and I think that's just too abusive that I'm in the hands of a fragile stupid piece of hardware to have my user license.