hi,
i love dragon is easy to use and if you buy it from ebay it is cheap you just have to go out and buy the headphones and mic set. I have actually just upgraded it is on the way from ebay yesterday. I bought the new one 9......I really recommend it.....it makes life easy....it is a major learning curve....you have to train it to recognise your voice and your commands, but it is not more than a days worth of work if you do it properly. It will scan all your documents in your computer for words and your info and add it to it's dictionary.....but I am biased have not used the other one....lol

happy hunting.....
Victoria