Quote - An artist can make do with the hardware they have.  Great stuff was created way before there was 64-bit.  If one thinks 64-bit will make their gallery look better, they are mistaken.  It will just allow more of their mistakes and lazy bad habits to creep into their scenes.  More does not mean better.

Hear hear! Let's have superfast machines so that predictable and mediocre scenes can be turned out at higher speed...!

Quote - To fully realize Vue requires the latest NVidia GPU's, a quad core or an i7, 12 gigs RAM or more which is about 1 year old tech in off the shelf machines.

I don't know where you live, but I want to move there. Where I am, off the shelf machines don't come anywhere near to meeting such specs. That's why I have been configuring my own setup in order to get going again with Vue (8) - a system which is just about what you suggest (only 4GB less RAM) and will set me back 1800 euros (ie., 2500 dollars). I don't think so...