Wow, for $1,000 per year you could just about buy a MacBook and a copy of Parallels, which would let you create a full library of VMs with all the different browsers and operating systems, then load any one you wanted.

Plus -- you'd have a sweet machine to use for other purposes when you weren't testing. This sounds way overpriced.

You could do the same thing with VMWare Fusion (though it's still in beta, and I haven't tried it).

Obviously, free is better than $19.95. But, I think $19.95 per day is a pretty good price too. I would rather pay browsercam.com $20 for instant results than wait around for hours (the current wait time on the browsershots.org cue is over three hours as I type this).

You should probably try browsershots, then see how it actually works, and if it's not fast enough for you, try browsercam's free trial. I only mentioned browsercam and browsershots, but if you know any more, you can post them.