ares997 wrote:
Yeah it isn't cheap to wait for 10 years to upgrade your key....You will buy a mac book pro for 2500 but it's too much to ask to support the software company that has always been good to you (except maybe one release I won't mention), even when they were flustered with problems I know they worked hard and fixed them. But you can't spend some extra dough for the key.
Car washes are totally an option. Only a month or two of them and your be in good shape. I hear begging for change is a good way to make a little side income.
Software has always and always will be the expensive part of what we do. We can't get away from it.
But we make a ton of money when it's time, because we have the tools that allow us to do things nothing else can do, faster, better, and without errors.
Considering that AC 9 was released in Oct. 04 and AC 10 was released mid 2006 you're off by a few years and the original authors SW is only outdated by a couple of days.
I no longer use AC and as I indicated have actually tried to give it away with no takers. When I was told it didn't save them any money I took it as an excuse because it isn't widely used and they simply didn't want the SW. I didn't investigate much further as I have no intention of upgrading and had already wasted too much time of my local reseller when some were considering purchasing.
I don't need to beg for change and I didn't vote for it either. Good luck with that. I accepted the MBP as final payment for a project that I had done for some people who thought they could beg me to forget what they owed me because they had squandered all the money they begged the government for on frivolous unrelated items for themselves. To this day regret having done so as it was less than half of what they owed me and I ended up not being able to do much with it until Apple finally replaced the computer because it was plagued with problems. I also ended wasting more money upgrading Apple's own software that I did still use only to find it wouldn't do what it was supposed to. I ended up redoing some non AC projects from scratch on a considerably slower G4 with X.3.7 because I discovered that the issues I was having were directly related the incorporation of NeXT into the graphics side of the OS. I can at least sell the computer and software to someone's benefit who may not be able to purchase it new.
There is no way the sale of the AC license can "re-coupe" the investment made especially for those of us who paid upwards of $5000.00 for 4.5 and continued to upgrade with each new release but it would be nice to be able to help someone, like a few on this forum, who are students or new in the practice and do not have the funds to purchase the program and therefore lack the proper tools to be competitive and be able to "make a ton of money when it's time".
A few offices that I thought would take it in a heartbeat no longer even use it and have switched to Chief Architect and other solutions as it has been to difficult to find people who can actually get their presentations and documents out without appearing that they are going backwards as many that do use it still use it as a 2D drafting tool.
