PT9 Crossgrade Pricing Questions

[maxspl]

Does anyone know if the price of the crossgrade from PT8 to PT9 is permanent or if it's a promo for purchasing and installing this year only?

I have PT8 LE running with an MBox Mini, and I'm considering upgrading to PT9 because of the flexibility of working with other interfaces and mixing on a laptop. Problem is, I think I will need a new laptop. Believe it or not, I'm currently running 8 LE on an Asus netbook with XP Home . I highly doubt that it will support PT9.

Anyway, I'm still researching suitable machines and was considering holding off on purchasing one after the holidays and hope to get a deal on an older model. So, I want to know if I have purchase and install the cossgrade now, or if I can do it next year. I would prefer if someone from Avid could clarify.

Max

[joe.cavers]

I'd love to know the same thing, my Uni has an HD8 studio that they won't be upgrading and I'm currently running sessions between my LE 8 at home and HD 8 at Uni. I plan on upgrading to 9 after this year at Uni.

Joe

[joe.cavers]

Bump: Nobody know the answer to this? Avid guys, wanna chime in here?

[Touchwood Studios]

The wording is 'little' confusing it looks like the PIEP deal goes away after Dec 17th the current upgrade prices are established as they are today.
Anyway that's how I read the email I got from AVID.

[Kevin Windrem]

Originally Posted by maxspl

...Problem is, I think I will need a new laptop. Believe it or not, I'm currently running 8 LE on an Asus netbook with XP Home . I highly doubt that it will support PT9.

Max

Off topic, but: I tried to install PT9 on my XP laptop. It popped up a dialog indicating that version 9 isn't supported and installation is at your own risk but it appeared that it would allow install. I couldn't complete the install because the installer checks the amount of RAM and I only had 1 GB (needs 2 GB). There was at least one post somewhere that indicated they were successfully running PT9 under XP.

[ejwells]

It clearly states in the posted documents that PT 9 requires Windows 7, and doesn't work with XP or Vista. One or two people who've somehow (supposedly) installed PT 9 on XP machines doesn't mean it'll work.
More times that not, it won't load unless w7 is detected.

[sunburst79]

If the PTLE upgrade was a time limited offer they would almost certainly note that in the offer to spur sales during the promotion period. I think that its probably a permanent offer.