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Leopard Review: Macworld

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Interesting read, folks. Finally, someone told the truth about Spotlight under Tiger where good enough just wasn't good enough. Leopard's version, as they put it, is "shockingly faster" with improved search support...
Macworld wrote:The marquee feature of Leopard••™s predecessor, Tiger, was Spotlight, a desktop search engine that indexed the contents of all your Mac••™s documents and made them instantly accessible. It made for a great demo, but in everyday use Spotlight was a real letdown. It was slow, couldn••™t handle sophisticated queries, and failed to support the simplest query of all (namely, searches for a file with a specific name). With Leopard, Apple seems to have addressed most of Spotlight••™s failings. It••™s shockingly faster than it was in Tiger, and Spotlight now supports Boolean operators (and, or, and not).
There are other comparisons made, such as iChat, iCal (once a toy but now a true business tool), Mail and Preview, etc.

For more:
http://www.macworld.com/2007/10/reviews ... /index.php

Also, Macworld has done a decent job at looking beyond the cosmetics. Several MW people have gone over Leopard with a fine-toothed comb, and several have touted the best features of Leopard has having nothing to do with the bells and whistles.

For more:
http://www.macworld.com/2007/10/firstlo ... /index.php
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