Please, FS9 can looks just as good as FSX with a $200 computer running at Maximum settings...
Now that my friends is something I would like to see.
I think if that were the case NO ONE would be running FSX.
If you can make FS9 look like this video below, then I will sell my FSX computer tomorrow, go to Best Buy and find a cheap $200 rig and install FS9 and every available scenery on it and never look back.
BTW, a $6000 computer is not needed and this has been hashed out over and over. I'm running a $2000 system I had built 2 years ago that's got a E8400 overclocked to 3.85ghz and can fly pretty much anywhere I want in complex airliners into complex airports and suffer no issues, and that's running pretty high settings in FSX.