NON power user, low system resource settings

Hi, I want to do some very basic human figure posing. what are the best ways to minimize features so that my i7 laptop with 10 gb of RAM can accomplish this? I used poser years ago, and you could "dumb down" a lot of the details with it, but haven't found a similar way to decrease system demand.
Thanks
Thor3
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Is the issue the posing or the rendering? If the latter, how photo-real are you wishing to get?