My P8 first impressions (used all Poser versions since Poser 4):

Positive

• P8 with all my runtimes attached (all in all around 100 GB) loads in just a few seconds. My P7 used to take several minutes lately to start up.

• The new library is lightning fast compared to earlier versions and adding and switching runtimes works like a charm.

• Render speed and quality is much improved.

• So far, P8 runs stable and smooth on my machine (WinXP, NVidia, DualCore, 2 GB Ram), but I never ever had a crash with P6or P7 either and I use Poser almost daily.

Negative

• The thumbs in the new library are ridiculous small (until you select an item) and that alone makes browsing the library imho in no way an improvement over earlier versions. It seems even more annoying than before to browse your content. And I couldn't care less for the new search function. I have a lot of content, but it is well organized and I know where to find my stuff.

• Some older python scripts don't work anymore but that was predictable.

• Digital download of P8 and all the content is a pain in the a$$. Slow servers, gigantic archives (why can't they split them in smaller ones?), many dropouts and no resume function. Still wasn't able to complete the content download and I started 12 hours ago.

More later...