Vue 5i ran on my system out of the box (1st released Wintel version Pro 4 upgrade, V5.05-02 build 275765) as released and i had only 512MB memory. I got useful work done with it. Not my definition of "crap". It crashed Win XP Pro a few times to be sure (3-4). I agree that new releases should be more robust than Vue 5i was at release. Anyway, drifting off the store topic...