I for one think this is the most exciting upgrade since verson 6 was announced.  They have finally added the one thing I have long wanted, a decent GPU based preview!  Now I will actually have time to animate without tieing up my computer for hours/days!

Everything else looks great too.  I can only see one thing they forgot.  There is still no soft-body dynamics.  I was at least hoping we'd get either a spring solver like iClone's or a native jelly/jiggles deformer.

I tried to use the jelly morph, but it seems incompatible with newer versions of python.