I can't wait to get Poser 8. I do animation. I know there hasn't been much talk about the animation capabilities, but, The time saved with the lighting set up is worth it alone. It takes a good amount of time to get the lighting the way you want it often, and dancing around the inviroment to make sure your lights are in a correct place to cover the scene.

I have a I7 4core, 6 gig or ram 64bit to work with. Poser Pro really speeds up the renders as apose to Poser 7. Everything to me is setup and animation. rendering speeds are things I can't control to get certain looks. But is Render speeds are as fast as Poser Pro, and easier to set up, All I can say is Wow. Time is money!