Re: Blessing files downloaded from the internet is TEDIOUS!

In article <timmcn-E792F3.12424331102008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Tim McNamara <timmcn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <jollyroger-BC9894.20003930102008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jolly Roger <jollyroger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <timmcn-B9960A.18305930102008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Tim McNamara <timmcn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <1ipo089.1bt1db91o48khbN%jamiekg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
jamiekg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jamie Kahn Genet) wrote:

Hmmm... 10.5 seemed like a pretty major upgrade to me, what with
Time Machine, Stacks, Boot Camp, better Spotlight, etc.

I have a backup strategy already; Stacks looks annoying; I have
zero interest in running Windows (and, as noted, have a PPC Mac);
and "better" Spotlight would be incremental, no? So for me there
wasn't much in 10.5 to make it a compelling upgrade. YMMV, of
course.

You're focusing only on the eye candy marketing features and ignoring
the real meat. Here are some highlights from Ars Technica's
excellent-as-always article on Mac OS X 10.5:

<snip long list of improvements>

<http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/mac-os-x-10-5.ars/>

Mac OS X 10.5 is anything *but* an "incremental update". I'm pretty
sure you'd know that if you'd just use it for a week or so.

How much of that applies to PPC Macs? When 10.5 came out, it seemed
pretty clear at the time that most of these goodies were optimized for
(and in some cases only functioned on) Intel Macs.

As far as I can tell *all* of it applies to PowerPC-based Macs - with
the small caveat that 64-bit features require a 64-bit PowerPC CPU (G5).

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