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Were they? You yourself have mentioned how awfully slow PowerBooks had gotten compared to PC laptops a couple of times. I'm all too familiar with it myself.

I don't really think they're all that seperate. NeXTStep ran on x86 before it was ever purchased by Apple, and we now know they've been maintaining the x86 version concurrently with the PPC version all this time. The transition to Intel is a fairly logical part of the overall OS X transition, in many ways.

I don't think they could realistically have done this. It would be a horrendous undertaking.

And hence the difference with Spotlight, which re-indexes a change as soon as it happens.

Spotlight does not defer the indexing, and the system does not seem to suffer a performance hit as a result.

I wouldn't call this a hack, it's a behaviour that is part of the system, but is not exposed by the UI. I think it should be.

I had forgotten that I had originally enabled this using the command line.

One click on the Finder icon in the bottom left corner of the screen, and there is a Finder window. Much like the Start menu (although the Start menu has an advantage here in that it will always appear in the same place, while the Finder window won't).

You can, but the Dock is easier than this.

Damn and blast the Genie Effect! :-)