Re: How does this change anything?

"...I'm glad I have a spare Quadro4000 hanging around, and a Kona3 -- seems like my #2 system might have some life left in it, after all..."

Seem that your date with Smoke is well-omed.

If round-tripping is your daily fun you will be amazed how dull you life will be without entertaining gamma-shifts and amusing VFX folders no one can track in a later project restore.

Licensing is currently MAC address based with a interesting lock to the hardware recognition of the HD. In the past is was a real mess and lately changed much to the better. I have the license installed on one machine and can use Smoke via the network on other machines. Hope they keep that.

Hans