Quote - ---I dont really know what I can say. Software advances and requires more and more powerful computers to run it.  It really isnt that we dont want you as a customer or want to write you off... but this isnt a situation that is unique to us. Backward compatibility of Operating systems are a good example. when Lion came out earlier this year it discontinued a lot of compatibility... even for those with perfectly capable computers. I wish all software could work forever on every machine but that wont happen, the cost to maintain that infrastructure would be enormously prohibitive. if we stopped making use of advancing technology to enable lesser host machines, not only would that be illogical, but we would likely be branded as out of date or told to get with the times. There would be just as many angry from the other side. We want you as a customer, but the minimum requirements arent personal, they just are what they are.

...I guess that leaves me out then, as since I have a notebook, it means getting a completely new system. 

As I have tried to explain, maybe not clearly as I am very frustrated and discouraged right now, is that if the memory leak and bloating issues were addressed and fixed in one of the previous editions of the application, there would already be a version which would be reasonably stable and still work on older systems. This didn't happen.  It was "tolerable" to an extent with the early versions of Studio as they were offered for free.  However, when the Advanced version of Studio3 came out, it became a sticking point because people such as myself paid for what is essentially now a broken product.

DanaTA has the right idea (thank you) and I think development should actively pursue this.

It's hard to remain a customer when there is little in the store to buy anymore.

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...forsaken daughter is watching you.

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