I've been missing something. What's up with Guita?

I'm a very impatient man :D

Too bad there isn't a demoversion of Vue 5.

When you learn to be a pilot, you learn with a Cessna before you switch to a F-22 :-)

I liked that simile :) I think I'll follow your advice, buy non-pro first until I get a steady grip of the program. Thanks.

Orio, you're absolutely correct that it's impossible to tell if I "need" Pro or not. My expectations are to be able to create landscapes, as in Vue 4. I don't even know 5% of the features in Vue 4 (been using demoversion and therefore no manual) so I'm gonna have a long way to learn the program.

Out of plain curiosity, may I ask how (or what) do you use Vue professionally? Selling landscapes to advertisement bureaus or similiar? I'm a plain novice, but I'm interested in the program because I like nature and natural CGs. Some day I hope to make some money with it, but that'll take some years I guess.

Ofcourse rendering speed depends on a lot of factors. Time consuming things, like volume lights, makes a dino of the computer. Saying "I'll not buy it if it takes 21 minutes to render" is pretty useless, since the person (who talked about the 21 mins) never said anything about his horsepowers or the size of the image, or the quality. I can render images in 1 sec and I can render images in 9 hours. Everything depends on a lot of factors. Myself, I have a Pentium 4 2.8GHz with 1GB RAM. Even if it's not the fastest machine, I can live with it. I usually render the stuff when I go to bed or work, and the stuff is usually finished when I get back :)

I sent a mail to e-on asking for a list of differences for the products, but they rejected my wish and stated "You'll have to wait until it gets on our website the next month". So I cancelled the order and I'll wait for the list to appear so I can see if I want/need the Pro version or not. Feels pretty heavy to buy Vue 5 and upgrade to Pro later, the person at e-on told me it "won't be cheaper".