At Apple Briefs (one of the best blog names ever, I’m convinced), blogger and lawyer Jeffrey Kabbe gave us his thoughts about why lawyers should consider turning their law practices into Mac-central earlier this month.
One of the most compelling reasons Jeffrey provides is the utility of Spotlight, the system-wide search function that, once experienced, will make you look at Windows’ “Find …” in a very, very different way:
Spotlight is so great that it deserves its own separate treatment. Spotlight is a system-wide search feature that is similar to Google Desktop. Spotlight indexes your entire filesystem, allowing nearly-instant keyword searches on file names, the contents of files, and spotlight comments (tags or other comments that are attached to files primarily for spotlight searching). In Leopard, Spotlight became even more advanced, allowing complex boolean searches and searches of network drives. A combination of file tagging, spotlight searching, and time machine makes for a great basic document management system.
Jeffrey points out many other Mac benefits that I wrote about in my “switching story” (among them stability and aesthetics) but he goes into other features I didn’t mention yet simply because they hadn’t become apparent to me at the time of the switch.
So, even though I’ll be talking about some of this myself in tomorrow’s post, I wanted to give you all this link so you can get another perspective, and not just “take my word for it.”
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