So I´m not the last dinosaur here? I too love those little art-covered boxes containing a couple of CD´s, some bonus offers and a PRINTED MANUAL. I could easy pay a 50$ extra for a printed manual.

For me Daz was the second worse thing that could happen to Carrara, only Corel would be worse. That said I don´t think Daz is a bad company, they´re just not just right for Carrara. When I bought My first Carrara 3 I think It was a "cutting edge" product when it comes to high end features to a low price.

I jumped from Carrara 3 to 5 and thought I might go from 5 - 7 now and give Daz a chance. When I saw they left us old Eovia users out in the cold by not launching a rebated upgrade from v5 I too decided to leave Carrara for other software. Besides I do not like the direction the developement has taking, like you said; Carrara is now a backseat app to Daz flagship, Daz Studio.

I will probably continnue to use  C5 for a long time, I still thing it´s a powerful app in many areas but perhpas it is time to learn someting new...