[andrej770]

Keep in mind the OS compatibility stuff. I recently bought a whole studio building with 3 rigs with Magma Expansion cases, iloks and all and thought I'd buy all new cylinder macs, replace the Magma's with Thunderbolt Sonnets, replace the HD5's with a single HDX (each) and just move to the new HW with the old OS and older 10 & 11 HD (Using TimeMachine). Ummm, Nope! Can't migrate from a tower to a cylinder with the OS's that support 10 & 11 HD. So I figure I'll just install 10 on the new cylinder macs. NOT!!! You can't install 10 HD, for which I have the complete installs, on any OS higher than 10.9.x. ARGH!!! And who wants to revert to 10.9 on a cylinder mac just to use 10 HD? So the only other option was to do what?, yep, thats right, (Avid is loving this story) upgrade to 2018.10, since you can't buy 12.5 or below any more. I do the rental for a month to get my act in order. But I'm not done. I go to bring up a session, none of my cards or interfaces are recognized. Why? I don't have a DigiLink I/O license. OMG! The three HD I/O should be good to go right? Nope!! (the voice on the phone says, sorry you didn't have a support contract at the time, so one wasn't deposited so that will be $300 more per rig). OMG!!!!! So, before I can do any of that, I have to do the full transfer. I'm like Avid, I can still buy Windows 7, 8 and 10 from Microsoft. I get it that you want people to migrate to the new cash cow, but OMG at least let me get my belt off and pants down first before you screw me over with all the complication and additional cost.

No, I'm not bitter at all. I just plugged the old macs back in and said screw it. Word to the wise, think this all the way through before you jump.