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From: Longfellow on 14 Mar 2010 00:16
The system is all put together, ready for software. I was about to by
CS4 today, and get on with things. But questions arose:

CS5 is due out fairly soon, and it is supposed to be better set up for
64 bit systems. Which means I may very well want to upgrade.

So, the question: How well (or poorly) does Adobe software upgrade?
I'd really rather not have to buy the entire CS5 if I decide upgrading
is worth the effort, but if "fresh installation" is really preferable
with Adobe software, I may be better advised to wait for CS5.

Anyone have that sort of experience with Adobe products? If so,
comments would be appreciated.

Thanks for reading.

Longfellow

From: tony cooper on 14 Mar 2010 00:38
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:16:41 -0600, Longfellow <not(a)this.address>
wrote:

>The system is all put together, ready for software. I was about to by
>CS4 today, and get on with things. But questions arose:
>
>CS5 is due out fairly soon, and it is supposed to be better set up for
>64 bit systems. Which means I may very well want to upgrade.
>
>So, the question: How well (or poorly) does Adobe software upgrade?
>I'd really rather not have to buy the entire CS5 if I decide upgrading
>is worth the effort, but if "fresh installation" is really preferable
>with Adobe software, I may be better advised to wait for CS5.
>
>Anyone have that sort of experience with Adobe products? If so,
>comments would be appreciated.

I jumped from PS 5.0 to PS 7.0 to CS4. They install separately. I
deleted 5.0, but I still have 7.0 on my computer but use only CS4.

Unless something is different with CS5, it will install separately and
not try to over-ride or over-write CS4.



--
Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
From: nospam on 14 Mar 2010 00:56
In article <3KednR1gDMyk7AHWnZ2dnUVZ_o-dnZ2d(a)posted.olypeninternet>,
Longfellow <not(a)this.address> wrote:

> So, the question: How well (or poorly) does Adobe software upgrade?

there's no problem with upgrading. you can have multiple versions
installed at the same time.

> I'd really rather not have to buy the entire CS5 if I decide upgrading
> is worth the effort, but if "fresh installation" is really preferable
> with Adobe software, I may be better advised to wait for CS5.

photoshopworld is in a few weeks and it's entirely possible that cs5
will be announced then. if you aren't in a rush, it would be a *very*
good idea to wait. you could still buy cs4 if you wanted, and then get
a free upgrade to cs5, but only if you buy it *after* cs5 is announced.

of course, they might not announce it at photoshopworld, but cs5 is
definitely coming very soon. they've already begun to demo parts of it.
From: David Ruether on 14 Mar 2010 09:18

"Longfellow" <not(a)this.address> wrote in message
news:3KednR1gDMyk7AHWnZ2dnUVZ_o-dnZ2d(a)posted.olypeninternet...

> The system is all put together, ready for software. I was about to by
> CS4 today, and get on with things. But questions arose:
>
> CS5 is due out fairly soon, and it is supposed to be better set up for
> 64 bit systems. Which means I may very well want to upgrade.
>
> So, the question: How well (or poorly) does Adobe software upgrade?
> I'd really rather not have to buy the entire CS5 if I decide upgrading
> is worth the effort, but if "fresh installation" is really preferable
> with Adobe software, I may be better advised to wait for CS5.
>
> Anyone have that sort of experience with Adobe products? If so,
> comments would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks for reading.
>
> Longfellow

Relevant only to video editing and HD, but there are better editors
for HD than Adobe's, although that is fine for SD (see my
http://www.donferrario.com/ruether/hdv-editing.htm for why...)
--DR


From: Peter on 14 Mar 2010 12:54
"Longfellow" <not(a)this.address> wrote in message
news:3KednR1gDMyk7AHWnZ2dnUVZ_o-dnZ2d(a)posted.olypeninternet...
> The system is all put together, ready for software. I was about to by
> CS4 today, and get on with things. But questions arose:
>
> CS5 is due out fairly soon, and it is supposed to be better set up for
> 64 bit systems. Which means I may very well want to upgrade.
>
> So, the question: How well (or poorly) does Adobe software upgrade?
> I'd really rather not have to buy the entire CS5 if I decide upgrading
> is worth the effort, but if "fresh installation" is really preferable
> with Adobe software, I may be better advised to wait for CS5.
>
> Anyone have that sort of experience with Adobe products? If so,
> comments would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks for reading.
>
> Longfellow
>


My experience with upgrades is that Adobe is fairly smooth. CS5 is currently
in Beta. There is no guaranty that Adobe will follow it's past practices.
You might try the Beta and see if it works for you. You might also want to
try CS4, trial version whish is fully operational and then see what Adobe
announces. You can always purchase a license for the trial version.

HTH


--
Peter

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