If you consider the number of people who are on Poser versions earlier than 8 (hand up if thats you) then for that portion of the market this whole discussion is pointless. I have P7 and no money to upgrade Poser much less a new processor.  I run a single amd athlon at 2ghz with 512 mb of memory from about 2005.

 

If I need to do better than Poser I port the figure into lightwave and play with it there.

 

I mostly now do props for the commercial market simply because they dont take much longer than poser models but I make 10 times as much from them so even a few sales make me a profit, they are also usually by commision.