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Originally Posted by punky
Seems a lot of money for an ungrade which you can do yourself with a few freeware apps. You shouldn't have to pay full price if you are upgrading from Panther, surely...
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Granted dashboard is avaible but is much better when intergrated into the OS. The only other one is slow and you need to open it up as an extra application. spotlight is much better than anything on the market and supports 'smart' folders! Think of how itunes smart folders work and put that into the whole OS!
You can search anything to do with a contact on your address boook, images, videos, documents, emails, etc etc. BY name, anything! Then set up a folder that will automatically update. I.E Set up a folder for a client. Then every email then send you, any work you do, any notes, meetings, documents will automatically go into that folder, nroken up into sections based on file type or headers you choose!
Theres then a lot of under the hood improvements as well. H.264 is the new video codec used in HD-DVD and so on. (mpeg 4). It has bulit-in support for that. Core image and so forth have changed the way you mac will handle images/video etc etc putting more work on the graphic card than the processor making your mac much faster. People have tested it on a powerbook and had serveal high quality videos running at once with no slow down. This is due to H.264 (Higher quality at a lower file size!) and core image and many of the other stuff.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/overview...sandmedia.html
Apple tell you everything new on each section, so you can really see the improvements. I am happy with the new video/graphic system. Spotlight and dashboard. Safari 2.0 (faster than firefox in tests). Automator (basically a massive macro maker across the entire system. Make your computer follow tasks you set up and choose a time to do it, do it on start up, whenever!