Only the rendering speed improvement is worth this sale price. Poser 9 will utilise all of your cores, while Poser 7 leaves them idle half of the time. The light system has been improved a lot and of course, IDL was added and a number of other excellent features.

 

I don't think Posers X will be coming soon, Smith Micro more often runs sales, they had this one last year and I did upgrade to Poser Pro 2012 at that time.

Artwork and 3DToons items, create the perfect place for you toon and other figures!

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?vendor=23722

Due to the childish TOS changes, I'm not allowed to link to my other products outside of Rendo anymore :(

Food for thought.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZw0dfLmLk