CS4 Uninstall & general problems

I see tons of negative feedback on CS4 - is this typical of this forum or is this a program that's not ready to be hatched so to speak. I just shelled out a fortune to purchase CS 3.3 and I'm trying to see the value in spending another $440 (CS Web Premium).
I also see that several people have had trouble uninstalling these trials so I'm reluctant to even find out for myself. I had the same problem trying to evaluate CS3 in that it wouldn't install completely and wouldn't remove at all. FORMAT is a dirty word in this house.

>I see tons of negative feedback on CS4 - is this typical of this
>forum or is this a program that's not ready to be hatched so to >speak.
Neither. The problem with the various ranting threads (which I consciously have stopped reading) is, that the people starting them do not search for existing solutions and then, when you try to give advise, they don't listen and get lost in blathering on with their complaints.
I will concede that CS4 is not cut out for a given subset of hardware and the user experience will be impaired by the lack of proper hardware acceleration, but it is absolutely possible to
a) install it without problems
b) use it for work
regardless of this aspect (or "dark side", if you will). It may just require the user to update his drivers and spend a little more time configuring his system.
In my view it's simply a matter of staying realistic: I'm using CS4 here at home on a system that's almost 4 years old now, and while OpenGL works, it's of course not smooth when you rotate a 7MP image on a Quadro FX1400 and I don't expect it to. You wouldn't fly to the moon with a toaster, either. More than anything else I think it's a matter of false expectations and how informed you are: People are too easily confused by all the buzz words and then tick out when CS4 doesn't work on a 500 USD notebook with a cheap, 2 year old intel chipset, when it was never meant to be used there... There's many sides to this.
Anyway, since the trials are officially available as of this week, why not see for yourself? The installers work just fine along CS3, so the risk is acceptable, I'd say...
Mylenium

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