Re: £4,529 ?
>What muppet would part with that for an MS product?
NASA, JPL, D'Assault Systemes, Autodesk, Volvo, Saab, amongst others. I know who they are - who the hell are you?
CAD hardware used to be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars range, if not more. The software was typically a tenth of that. Companies would pay it if it payed for itself, and then some. And it did. FFS, a few thousand quid is only the cost of a professional graphics card a few years ago.
You've betrayed your ignorance of this sector, N2, so I'm confused as to what it is you feel you can add to this topic.