Apple's Tiger Knows How to Hunt

Businessweek Online ^ | 7/1/2004 | By Peter Burrows

[antiRepublicrat]

Many of the pdfs I work with are scanned hard documents rather than key-stroked, so that's a bit out of my paradigm.

In that case Acrobat probably already ran OCR on the documents and stored the text in the PDF file with links to where the words show on the graphically-represented page (at least if you're set up right. Spotlight can just search that data.

[Question_Assumptions]

Unless the new search features are very memory, CPU, and hard drive light, I can't imagine using them much. My 500MhZ iBook is about at the limits of what it run and hold and the last thing I need is search indices taking up 5GB of drive space or background processes eating up memory and CPU cycles. Yes, I'm sure it will be great for the newest hardware but I don't see myself using it. Hopefully, I'll be able to turn it off.

As for getting a new iBook, I'm waiting to see if they can squeeze a G5 into a PowerBook in the next year or two (either to get a G5 or to take advantage of G4 closeout prices). Until then, I'm sticking with my current 2001 iBook.

[jigsaw]

I'd get a Mac, but I'm not confident with the size of my penis.

You know, Woahhs, that if you had a Mac, you wouldn't have to take Bill Gates' eleven-finger touch-typing course.