So i tried playing around with the dynamic hair styling tools.  It was one of those things i keep track of with each version, hoping (like with dynamic clothing) that they've improved it.

Mostly i care about dynamic since i enjoy animation.  For obvious reasons, dynamic cloth and hair makes this easier :)

The latest poser pro does a great job of improving rendering times.  However, the dynamics engine is brutally slow.  once i have a long hair style, one that drapes down the back and shoulders, it takes an hour (dual core Mac Book Pro with 6GB RAM) to drape the hair.  And the drape effect is a mess.  The hair becomes spastic when it hits the shoulders.  And I styled the hair so it should drape nicely over the body.  What gives?

I'm really hoping that dynamic cloth and hair are high up on the dev team's list (thickness and elasticity, please).

Sigh....  Still using ploy hair (i read that U3 uses dynamic poly hair a'la "cloth hair" which i tried and cannot get results that are even remotely realistic looking)