Well put. Every point a solid truth. I bought Poser 8 for the speed. For me, rendering power and speed is everything. Before, It was a procedure of create in Poser and export to Carrara. I don't have to do that any longer. I can crank out my projects much faster now, even when Poser 8 screws something up and I have to fix the issue, the project time spent is still much quicker than before. My only issue with Poser 8 is the unrendered bucket artifact bug that occurs randomly during the animation process. However, it is easy to clean up post render.

Also, if you go in to the Market Place here you will see that the requirements listed for Poser items are usually Poser 5 and up. So I don't understand what unavailability Mugsey is speaking of. If you are using Poser 6 you are only being deprived of the Poser 8 core items.