In article .com,
"FatKat" wrote:

| I was actually curious to hear about the differences between X-Plane 8
| & previous versions. In nearly 20 years of simming, I've never seen
| more than screenshots of any X-plane version. What do I miss if I opt
| for 7 or 6?
|

X-Plane v8 is a big step up from v7 in terrain modeling. However, that
does come at the expense of requiring much more disk space and a bit
more CPU/GPU horsepower.

-- Tim Olson