It's been being discussed on the Mac-L. Generally people are not
having trouble with the new OS if they have 2 or more Gigs of RAM and
are running a Core Duo. Some with older and slower machines are
having problems with startup taking a loooong time. The initial
cataloging for the automatic hourly backup takes quite a while right
after installation (overnight), but is unnoticable after that.
The biggest adjustments are going to be to the very substantial
changes in the assumptions about how one wants to work with the
computer - especially with one's habits of file access. After
viewing the preview on apple's site, I'm not sure I'm at all ready
for this set of changes.
Among other things the suite of Apple applications is so much more
integrated than ever before that it is going to be a lot more
difficult to get free of the HTML enhanced email as well as the
wretched bloating full quote of the email being responded to (top
posting), and there is a lot of integration with iCal (which for me
is complete overkill) and the Address Book.
Mossberg has a few minor complaints about the eye candy dock and the
transparent menus, but they're really minor.
As far as I can tell from the Apple preview, a big monitor is going
to become essential, especially if one comes to fully using Spaces,
which I'm also not sure of the utility for me. I don't like stuff on
my desktop except the immediate things I'm working with.
Apparently Spotlight now has a "most recently viewed" feature - long
overdue, but I still use Find for just about every computer search,
since I mostly want to see all the things in my search string.
People report that FileMaker is still working well with the new OS,
and all the Adobe suspects are fully integrated already.
You probably want to check out the QuickTime preview at
<http://www.apple.com/macosx/guidedtour/?cid=AOS-AM-113427-C0003922-A10000084925>
if you haven't already done so. It will give you a good
introduction to the features of the new OS.
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Emily L. Ferguson
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