Just to make sure that every one understands. 64-bit rendering will not make rendering remarkably faster if at all faster (it can even slow rendering down in some limited cases). What 64-bit allows is for the user to access larger amounts of memory. This allows scenes that require a lot of memory to render, which would have crashed in Poser 7's 32-bit renderer.

Poser 8 allows for faster renders by taking advantage of multiple cores in a much more efficient way. There are also inhancements in memory usage that may allow scenes to render in Poser 8 that took too much memory in Poser 7. Great! That makes Poser Pro 2010 even more attractive to me.

It makes sense for SM to go after the market of people who have, or who soon will have computers with multiple cores. There are more of them than there are people running a 64-bit operating system. I would love to have both in Posr 8 now, but I get Poser 8 now, and Posr Pro 2010 upgrade minus the cost of Poser 8 upgrade. When the beta is released, I get to play with it before it hits the shelf.

Just keep in mind, the widest possible beta test is releasing the product to the public. SM's Poser team has already released a hot fix for normal maps. The next sevice release could really fix a lot of problems. I remain an opptomist.

Probably edited for spelling, grammer, punctuation, or typos.