I'll be off reading that article over lunch, thank you. :) I'm sure native apps would work better. And for things like Word that's a relatively small investment. For Photoshop, though...that's an expensive investment. I sincerely doubt I'd qualify for Upgrade pricing since I'd be switching platforms.

That's a real stickler for me and I was hoping to use that money for whopping expensive things like memory. (I only thought some of the older Wintel box memory was high priced.) My monitor and external hard drives are both new enough to still be on the market so I should be ok there. I had a moment of panic that it would want to reformat or be unable to read any of the files I have stored there. My printer is an HP office jet of some sort but it's a few years old so...maybe?

Yeah, photoshop is a pretty big switch over. I think if the mac people were really thinking they'd work some sort of deal out with Adobe about that.

Anyway, I think your printer would probably work, too. At the very worst you'd have to download a driver, but you probably won't even have to do that!

*grin* I don't think Apple has EVER been about saving its customers money. Frustration, perhaps, but not money.

The more I think about it, the happier I will be if I bite the bullet and switch to Photoshop for Macs.