Unless you're talking film editing or high-end 3D rendering, computer software doesn't come as RAM hungry as Photoshop. On a brand new G4 or Pentium III it was like lightning, but on the original Pentiums and Power Macs plenty of us are still saddled with, it was fraught with twitchy, irritating delays.

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is one of those funny technologies … a fantastic idea but not half as useful as you think it's going to be, a bit like digital TV or Matrix sequels.

If you're starting your own design studio from scratch or you're working on software so old it makes sense to upgrade it all at once, Adobe Web Bundle will be the most value for money purchase you'll make on software this year.