Any way to upgrade to CS… not CS2?

DG
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Dennis_Gordon
Nov 4, 2005
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Hi all…

We have 9 workstations in the company. Four of them are running Photoshop CS, either purchased individually, or part of the Suite. The other users are running v7. Our editorial designers were hounding me to upgrade them, so I popped the CS2 trial into one machine to see how one of them likes it. She doesn’t particularly. Too sluggish and she hates Bridge. I didn’t have the opportunity to work much with it, but I believe her when she says she’d prefer CS to CS2. Trouble is, I don’t see it sold commercially anywhere (well at least at the Adobe Store and Newegg). My option is to bid on whatever luck ‘o the draw I can find on Ebay.
Is CS2 the only upgrade from v7 that I can purchase commercially for these workstations? Whatever advantages of CS2 are outweighed by the loss of the browser to Bridge and the higher system overhead. Now my machine is dual core AMD and it would handle it fine I’m sure, but these older P4s may struggle with CS2, prompting me to upgrade the hardware earlier than I wanted to.
So where can I purchase CS upgrades? Thanks…
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Michael_D_Sullivan
Nov 4, 2005
Unless you find a vendor who has a few boxed copies of CS 7 months after it has been taken off the market, or an individual who is selling his CS along with a license transfer, or a bankrupt graphics company in liquidation, or an estate of a graphics user, you won’t find a legitimate copy of CS for sale. It’s very unlikely that any legitimate vendor still has an inventory of CS. There may sporadically be someone who no longer uses Photoshop and wants to sell all rights to his or her copy, but the odds of getting a legal copy are pretty small. And given that a legal copy of CS can be upgraded to CS2 for $149, it is worth the legal price of CS2 less the upgrade fee, or about $450-500. If it really is legal, no business will be selling it for less than that.
DG
Dennis_Gordon
Nov 4, 2005
We’ve had pretty good luck buying the occasional legit, unregistered copy of PS7 and Acrobat on Ebay, but there are lots of bogus offers as well. I was hoping to avoid that route. I guess I’ll buy a few CS2 upgrades and see how they go.
JW
John_Waller
Nov 4, 2005
Just curious:

what in particular did she hate about Bridge?

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John Waller
JJ
John Joslin
Nov 4, 2005
Bridge is not something you can make a valid decision about after a few hours. I had a pretty low opinion of it initially but, after 6 months, have grown to appreciate it.

It is still clunky and quirky in some aspects and I still definitely need Windows Explorer or ACDSee for some things but I am looking forward to a lot of improvements in Version 2. 😉
DP
Deborah_Palmer
Nov 4, 2005
Can you not just buy extra licences from Adobe for the copies of CS that you already have in the office or is it that once the new version comes out you can only get licences for that?
DG
Dennis_Gordon
Nov 4, 2005
Well, in the long run I’m sure that moving to the latest version is the thing to do, because in a year I’ll have upgraded many of these workstations to dual core CPUs. But some of these machines are 2.2ghz celerons, assembled for running quark and PS7. As we’ve moved to the CS products, what seemed snappy a coupla years ago is getting a bit tired. That’s why I just built myself a nice 3800X2 box running at 2.55ghz. Nothing slows that thing down. But I feel a bit guilty watching others sludge through things as I’m whistling a happy tune. OTOH, I can’t practically upgrade everyone’s hardware at the same time just so Bridge will run faster. That’s why I was hoping to pick up some CS licenses. I think CS1 is the best all around Photoshop release. I’ve never heard the type of carping that CS2 has received by some less than thrilled users.

It’s not like the world will end if these people must suffer with poor old v7 for a few months more, either…
C
chrisjbirchall
Nov 4, 2005
what seemed snappy a coupla years ago is getting a bit tired.

That’s the nature of the beast these days I’m afraid. We all need bottomless – or at least constantly replenishing – pockets!
AC
Art Campbell
Nov 4, 2005
As you add the new workstations, equip them with CS2.
So far as I know, there aren’t any incompatibilities between CS and CS2 file formats (although I haven’t played with all applications), but if there are, I’m sure there’s a backwards compatibility switch as there is in PS CS2.
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