[Lt Major Burns]

i agree with you. i disappointed with myself for not being content with panther. the hype got me. i don't like tigers features, or their implementation - spotlight is half a job, and not nearly system wide. smart folders are just too slow and clucky to be useful, they need to be far more fundamental. the way it searches is poor, offering no context to which file it is you want (say i have 5 versions of a song with the same title?), and there seems to be no consistency in even search areas! (the spotlight icon, top right; the "show all" window; the Finder apple+f and the open dialogue box, all differ)

dashboard is slow, and as it has been pointed out, too slow (it takes less time to find the real calculator and open it then to go into dashboard and add the calculator) to really benefit anything. it was always designed to be a distraction. and where is Quartz 2d extreme?

mail, i don't use, as i have http mail; ichat, i don't use because the world still uses msn. the slideshow is really difficult when more than 10 images are loaded...

but... with all of that... i have gotten so used to spotlight, i am totally sure i couldn't go back. i've tried. i look up at the old apple menu logo, and dispair at going backwards. damn apple. this is a poor version.