Y'know it always amazed me that no matter how speedy a computer you use, it always seems like we will never hear the end of "my renders are taking a literal DAY to complete". Remember the days of early Poser 4? When you could finally use transparency maps and group objects and characters and conform clothing and even a half baked scene with just a few props a few figures and maybe some environment would take hours and hours to render and that was when the BEST computer you could buy at that time was about 300mhz with maaaaybe 256Megs of ram and that was if you had like a workstation or something "Who needs a quarter gig of Ram anyway?" and most people made it on about 64 - 128megs. Our hard drives were maybe 6 gigs TOPS and we used to download all these awesome props and textures and such off the old "PoserForum" and early Renderosity and complain about long download times when a file was more than a meg or two because all we had was 33.6K dialup.

Guess somethings just never change! Always be bigger and bigger models and more and more complex stuff we can add to the scene.