No answer is needed. What we're going through right now is called progress. Users want more features, higher quality, etc. That takes more oomph. Hardware guys make bigger, stronger stuff and the software guys write to take advantage of it. I don't want that to stop. If it had stopped 10 years ago, we'd all still be using 286's and programs like Poser wouldn't even be possible. Hopefully I'll be able to say the same thing 10 years from now about the Pentium 4 and Poser v15.07. As far as cost goes, the PC industry is great. In the 80's I bought a brand new car for under $10,000 and a 286 for $3000. Now the same model car costs over $20,000 but I can still get the latest-greatest PC for around $3000. I say keep that RAM-hungry stuff coming! It means better quality (most of the time), and RAM is cheap.