Corel Draw 2020

[pauland]

Just had an email about Corel Draw 2020.

The price is £599 including 20% VAT (I guess for our US friends it's about US$ 550 ? ).

Who on earth would pay that for it?

..or you can rent for a year - £299 ( US$ 250 ).

These guys are in Adobe territory. Are they crazy?

..or am I wrong?

[gwpriester]

The last time I used Corel Draw was in 1996, the year I started using Corel Xara.

[ss-kalm]

At the current exchange rate, you are looking at US$731 for GBP599 ...

But, yes, I'd go with crazy!

[pauland]

At the current exchange rate, you are looking at US$731 for GBP599 ...

But, yes, I'd go with crazy!

I took the VAT tax part off for the US. I was too lazy to look up the actual exchange rate..

[handrawn]

these things are relative - I won't bore you with how much Toon Boom Harmony Premium costs, but it's a lot more than Corel Draw

of course TBHP is 'industry syandard', real alternatives are thin on the ground.... and it's Preminum version node system is worth the extra in itself in my opinion because of the time it saves and the ease in which changes can be made on the fly..

I understand that corel draw is a lot more precise than xara when doing work such as blueprint design - xara can be very fast, but precise [in the engineering sense] it is not

and of course if you work closely with others who use a particular program it is usually better to have it yourself - time spent is money, it's not how fast/expensive the programs are for a given task that counts in these situations, but how efficient/cost-effective the process is overall - something xara are well aware of with their cloud approach I am sure

context is king

[pauland]

The thing that surprised me is that at this price-point it's nearing Adobe territory and I have yet to meet anyone working professionally that would own up to being a Corel Draw user.

It seems to me that the Affinity Suite may be match for Corel Draw at a much lower cost.

I'm sure there'll be a host of reviews coming.