derail. the point was, a new feature that is so annoying it breaks the software is not good software design. especially when forced to pay up to 300+$ for it. think viewcube.
Tomshardware had a good comparison. The iriver 320 kicked both of their asses. http://www.tomshardware.com/mobile/20041005/index.html http://www.tomshardware.com/mobile/20041007/index.html
Look at this tutorial/thing, it has a fairly dense sub div mesh with displacement, probably 30k? http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/xsi/monster/index.html