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on Snow Leopard

So I have had a week or so now with Snow Leopard and thought I might write some thoughts down on my experience with it so far. Firstly, the install was an absolute breeze - it just worked (but how many times do you hear that phrase anyway from Mac users). After reading about the integration with Exchange 2007 I was really looking forward to seeing Mail work with our office infrastructure and getting rid of Entourage. The installation process couldn't have been simpler in that regard. Since I was connected to our work network it just went off and found the mail server. Using Mail and iCal is great but.... Well actually it is quite good - seems much more efficient from an end user experience than Entourage but Mail and iCal are separate applications unlike Outlook or Entourage so I do have to have two apps open to work efficiently. A few things aren't quite there yet. In Outlook/Entourage we have a 'junk e-mail' folder that Exhange puts junk mail into. As it turns out, quite a lot of my junk mail is in fact real email that I need to respond to so I have to check this folder regularly but I can't see it any more. So for now I find myself having to get back into Entourage or an Outlook client to process some email that I can't otherwise see. On iCal I can't open other users calendars from our work environment which I can do (very quickly in Outlook and very, very slowly in Entourage). Setting privacy settings for meetings/appointments is problematic if I have multiple calendars open - just can't do it. Still... using Mail and iCal is generally much, much better than using Entourage. Another big plus is the new QuickTime Player. It's great to be able to create screen, audio and video recordings from it (especially screen recordings). One other thing that I was really looking forwards to is the use of the new trackpad gestures. Unfortunately it seems my Macbook Pro is too old for that and they are not supported. It has been really hard to (and I still can't) find any official information from Apple on exactly what models do support this feature. When you see the video of this feature it just seems made for a tablet Mac. The way the dock behaves now seems to be a bit nicer too. Anyway, that's it so far.