Bad Time to buy Lightroom?

Question: I am using Lightroom 1.4 and want to upgrade (finally). However, Lightroom 2.0 has been out awhile now and I wonder if I should wait until maybe the next version comes out. Of course, when that is is anyone's guess. But it has to come out soon. Anyone have any advice? I'm just a hobbiest so waiting wont kill me. But I would like to eventually move on from 1.4.
Thanks.

In my experiences in updating about a dozen .lrcats to v. 2, the 1.4 version was left intact. To be completely safe, though- and my experiences were on a Mac- you could not only backup the 1.4 catalog, but after the new one in v 2.4 is created, you could archive it through compression (Stuff; zip, whatever it's now called).
Your 1.4 catalog will be fine on the images now in the catalog, and you should be able to open it for sometime to come. Note, however, that the application - the 1.4 version- should also be backedup, and compressing it on the main drive assures it won't get opened by mistake.

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I do both, upgrade LR and upgrade PS.
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Lets hope that this is a turning point for Adobe in that they realize that "powerful" does not have to mean "complex". Avid or Final Cut Pro are examples of that principal. Both of which obliterate Adobe in the professional NLE marketplace.

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