[Mark Bein]

[Rob Pitman] “with the massive reductions on Avid at the moment”
If money is a concern, better check usual upgrade pricing before making a decision

[Mark Bein]

[David Bankston] “V9 first version without need for external hardware.”
I remember the outrage
“My Pro Tools HD rig is now worthless – thousands of dollars down the drain”

[David Bankston] “Folks on new i7 are getting 40 tracks real time no stutter”
I’d say you get enough plain audio tracks with eq/compression/reverb for movie sound
(surround is very expensive though).
I’m more of a composer – I get a lot of cpu spikes with software instruments/guitar processing etc.
MIDI editing is good enough for me.

[Mark Bein]

I love Pro Tools. It’s much better than Soundtrack (don’t know Logic).
But…
Pro Tools has got it’s fair share of problems too.

Look up the complaints about Pro Tools:
features long overdue
RTAS and overall performance bad
Virtual instrument handling no good

(not all that different from the bad press FCP7 had to suffer)

I love it – but I get a much better track count with garageband.