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I’ve been running Mac OS X 10.4 (or Tiger as the kids are calling it) for 2 days now and am unimpressed.
Mail.app seems to need another month of development. The whacky toolbar buttons don’t bother me as much as the general bugginess and lack of useful new features. Why oh why can’t I do a nested boolean search!?! When I search for an email, I almost always know who wrote it and keywords. No can do. (I’ve been waiting for this feature for years.)
Spotlight so far is a joke. On the two systems I use (a Dual 2.0 GHz G5 w/ 1.5 GB of RAM and a 867 MHz Powerbook G4 with 1 GB or RAM) spotlight is slow. Sometimes it seems snappy, other times (I just did a search and it took 25 seconds to display the first result!) Something is definitely not right. I guess I’ll try rebubuilding the index when I go home tonight. The interface is downright embarrassing. The results in the drop down menu are almost useless to me. When you click “Show All” in the menu, it opens this window that isn’t attached to ANY application (the finder has a different 3rd interface for searching). When the window appears, it starts the search all over again!
Dashboard seems like a good idea, although it feels a little like bizzaro world (all overlayed in and separated from the rest of the desktop). The calendar and calculator may be handy but a web browser seems just as quick and better suited for many of these other widgets that take input.
They need to just ditch the system preferences interface. I can never find the preference I’m looking for. If you need the ability to search for the preference, you know your interface is terrible.
The RSS capabilities of Safari are uh, useless. NetNewsWire has nothing to fear. If they incorporated RSS capabilities into Mail.app then that might make sense.
It certainly isn’t all bad. There are a lot of under the hood enhancements that look interesting (arbritrary metdata for files, ACL’s, unix tools that can deal with resource forks, core image, etc.). But the features that have been hyped just seem unpolished.
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