looks like you can get it pretty cheap here, http://www.buysusa.com/ $99.99. May be some other stuff you have to do to get it at that price but $99.99 is alot better than 699. I am fortunate to get it free from work. But if you look around you can find it discounted.
The only difference is the start up screen when you open in. It costs 400 dollars more to get one with a feather than it doest to get one with a eye and a photo lens. In my opinion, I would go with the more expensive one. I would rather see a feather than a eye looking through a photo lens.
if i have the trial for ps 7, and found a loophole to keep it forever, is it worth it to switch to ps cs? i have all these brushes allready.....
One thing i noticed about CS is that the compression is far better than 7. All me psd files are about 30% smaller with no quality loss n such, made me happy. Plus all the extra bits n pieces everyone else has mentioned made me stick with this'un
Only thing cs really has going for it is the text on a path. But then agian just rasterize and skew it and stuff >.<