Upgrade Costs Too High

Does anyone else feel that the cost for upgrades is ridiculously highly?
Adobe has a great product CS but over the past few versions, I have felt that the changes to the new versions don't warrant the $800 - 1000+ costs for the upgrades. Those prices are more warranted for new full versions, but upgrades for 1 or 2 versions back should be 1/4 of what they are charging.

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What do you want to access in "the cloud"?
Snow Leopard would be your next system upgrade and you should be OK with the CS3 applications, and Office 2008. I cannot confirm that the other applications will work.
This is quite old, but take a look or Google the other applications to see if they are compatible with SL.
http://www.macintouch.com/specialreports/snowleopard/slcompat.html

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Hi Guru,
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OSS note 69455 does not contain valid information.
thank's for the answer.
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Hi
I got the same error and it actually prevents from getting further, because its treated as an error.
"ERROR: To be able to use ASU Toolbox, your system requires at
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Hey everyone.
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https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2737002

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The Avg. Disk sec/Transfer (LogicalDisk\Avg. Disk sec/Transfer) for the logical disk has exceeded the threshold. The logical disk and possibly even overall system performance may significantly diminish which will result in poor operating system and application
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Causes
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Resolutions
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â€¢
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â€¢
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I have a problem and have already tried a number of solutions.
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