This is probably known to many, but I am glad to have official word on Poser5 hardware implementation. This past week I wrote to CuriousLabs asking: 1) WIll Poser 5 have important optimzation for dual processing? 2) WIll Poser 5 utilize additional RAM in a significant way? Response came next day: Hello there, there is no release date for Poser 5 yet, but the underlying features are the same for Poser 4 and 5; They are not multi-threaded. so dual processors will not increase performance; previews are not hardware accelerated, so hi-end video cards are not needed, Poser 4 needs to have a memory updater applied to work with several gigs of memory; Poser 5 will have the updated code to handle gigs of memory. Right now, RAM and processor speed are the biggest performance dependencies. -- Thank you for your interest in our products. Sincerely, Al Willbrand Technical Support Manager Curious Labs Just thought I'd pass that on... ::::: Opera :::::