The hair room can produce good results, IMHO much better than transmapped hair. When transmapped hair first came out in Poser4 days it was a great leap forwards, especially the work of Kosaburo, but it seems to have deteriorated ever since then.

The hair room takes a lot of practice but it is worth the effort. The greatest enemy in achieving good styles is draping-don't do it for anything except long hair or your careful styling will disappear as in some of the renders earlier in this thread.