After reading this thread, and discussing with others, I have cancelled my order for Poser 5. I have an old video card with none of the bells and whistles, not NVidia or anything else more up to date than Open GL. I hardly ever do anything with people, and never do anything with animation. I use it almost exclusively for bringing props and animals into Vue. If I render in Poser it is because I want to make a PSP tube or a PhotoImpact stamp. So it occurred to me that since most of the innovations are in fields I either don't or can't use, this was potentially a waste of quite a large sum, which I really cannot afford unless I am going to get a lot of use out of it, and I cancelled.

If when people are using it widely and we know what it does, it does seem to be useful to those of us with old video cards and Vue, then I will order again, even though I miss the discount. But for now, it seems like a bit of an expensive gamble.