Exactly. Most people seem to have forgotten just how much Adobe was charging for CS back in the days of perpetual licenses. At first, Adobe was releasing a new version of CS every other year, but starting with CS5.5 they went to a yearly release. In total, there were 7 CS releases over a period of about 9 years. Assuming $2500/release, that's $17,500 compared to $5400 for 9 years of a CC subscription at $600/year.
The Abode CreativeCloud is ~ 50USD/month for access to everything if you sign up for a year. It's expensive, but significantly less than what it used to cost to chase the latest release of CS.
As far as I can tell, MS isn't charging any sort of a premium on these computers. In fact, if you are patient, they seem to have regular sales that make the price points very attractive.
They actually just pulled the DigitalRiver ISOs earlier this month. And they DID work with OEM product keys. I used them at least twice to recover machines that didn't have OEM recovery media.
The Microsoft Store sells PCs from a variety of manufacturers under the "Signature Edition" label. These computers are bloatware free and not more expensive than getting the same hardware elsewhere.
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Sure, 6 licenses for outdated software and 1 for the current release.
Exactly. Most people seem to have forgotten just how much Adobe was charging for CS back in the days of perpetual licenses. At first, Adobe was releasing a new version of CS every other year, but starting with CS5.5 they went to a yearly release. In total, there were 7 CS releases over a period of about 9 years. Assuming $2500/release, that's $17,500 compared to $5400 for 9 years of a CC subscription at $600/year.
The Abode CreativeCloud is ~ 50USD/month for access to everything if you sign up for a year. It's expensive, but significantly less than what it used to cost to chase the latest release of CS.
As far as I can tell, MS isn't charging any sort of a premium on these computers. In fact, if you are patient, they seem to have regular sales that make the price points very attractive.
They actually just pulled the DigitalRiver ISOs earlier this month. And they DID work with OEM product keys. I used them at least twice to recover machines that didn't have OEM recovery media.
The Microsoft Store sells PCs from a variety of manufacturers under the "Signature Edition" label. These computers are bloatware free and not more expensive than getting the same hardware elsewhere.