James,
That is interesting. I too noticed a lot less noise in the RAW Workflow. I only recently switched to RAW, I too enjoyed the ease of use JPGs offered. Like a lot of others, I have been a little frustrated with the Witebalance inadequacies and bought a WhiBal set. I worked them in JPG for a while, but found RAW was easier for that. I have been using RSE so far and am fairly pleased. My PC and RSE are pretty quick so the impact on time is minimal but time is one thing I am afraid about when I switch to Capture. I figured I would wait for the new release since it is supposed to be a big jump. My PS package, is PSE2, old. But with the Hidden power tools, I have been more then happy with it until now. I want to process in PS with the full 12bit image or is that 16 bit. Either way PSE2 only supports up to 8. With RSE, I have had some color issues, and thought or hear that it’s improved in Capture. I look forward to processing all in one package and am eagerly awaiting Capture NX. So Since my version of Neatimage only comes with a PS Plugin and no Capture NX Plugin, I hope you are right:)