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"Decent" by what standard? For me, Entourage is a much better email app than Mail, even with the former's quirks. I don't use Office much anymore, though (for writing, I've turned to Scrivener) and so I don't plan to buy Office 08. Currently, Entourage is the only Office application I use with any frequency (and I use Entourage all the time). I'd *like* to move to something else and lose Office entirely, but Mail definitely isn't the solution. Two biggest peeves (because they interfere with regular workflow, but are no means the ONLY criticisms): 1) no way to show/hide read mail. I normally keep Entourage set to show unread only--it's neater and I can be sure easily have at hand older mail I've either neglected or want to keep in mind. But if I also want to see read mail, there's a simple menu item/keyboard command to let me do that, then hide it again. Now, Apple *knows* people want to do that--there's a topic in Mail's Help about it. But it's such a kludgy, roundabout process, it's useless. 2) I'm firmly in the camp that the insertion point should be placed AFTER quoted text in a reply. There's an option in Entourage to set it either before of after; in Mail, it is set before with no way to change it.

Seems like a pretty innocuous situation. If this is anywhere close to the worst C/R experience you've had, you are very, very lucky.

Doesn't seem to do much more than the FREE Resize! 1.4.2: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/16845/resize%21

You might want to mention that the MSRP was a mere $6,995.

Mail: hate it. Following is part of a list I put together long ago... I'm pretty sure it's still applicable to Mail under Tiger. For me, items 1 & 2 are the dealbreakers for me. 1) biggest item: there should be an EASY way to show unread messages only. Right now, Help says the only way to do this is: "In the mail viewer window, click the top of the Status column to group unread messages together. Hold down the Shift key and click the first and last unread messages to select all of the messages at once. Choose Focus on Selected Messages from the View menu to hide the unread messages. After you've finished working, choose Show All Messages from the View menu." 2 I wish Mail could be set to automatically put the insertion point AFTER quoted text in replies--the standard according to every netiquette doc I've seen. 3) Schedules. Where's the ability to schedule things? Simple example: I know you can set Mail to check mail every X minutes (but why a popup menu for that? Why can't I type in the number of minutes?), but I have some POP accounts that have limits on how often you can check them. So some accounts I'd want checked every 10 minutes, others every half hour, and one last one twice a day. Can't do it, as far as I can tell. 4) Why can't you limit it to Subject/From/To *before* searching? 5) Need "smarter" rule creation. I.e., in Entourage, if I select a message with the Subject "that stuff you asked about" from "Sender@domain.com" and then create a new rule, if the criterion is "Subject" then "that stuff you asked about" is already in the field; if I switch to "From," then "Sender@domain.com" is autofilled.

I had a PowerBook 160; talk about your muddy screens! Anyone remember the term "submarining"? But I have to say, I did prefer trackballs to trackpads, even if you had to periodically remove and clean the former.

Why not just keep calling it a PowerBook? Apple called its laptops PowerBooks even before they used the PowerPC processor--i.e., all the models with three numbers in their designation (PowerBook 160, etc.). I remember when the first PowerPC Powerbooks came out, some people (whimsically) wondered if they'd be called the PowerPowerBooks.