Danish Khan's Thoughts Entrepreneurship, Programming, and Life

After a few years my iBook got old and I decided to purchase a MacBook Pro. At the time when I purchased my new Mac apple had come out with it’s hot new operating system OS X 10.5 code named Leopard. One of the big new features was that they had completely revamped Spotlight. When I heard this I was skeptical because Spotlight was not that great on my iBook and unless they integrated Quicksilver I couldn’t see how Spotlight could be any better. Surprisingly when I started using my new MacBook Pro I really liked Spotlight and how it was so much faster and finding exactly everything I needed and the new features that were included into it. I did not download Quicksilver and thought I was completely pleased with the new Spotlight. However, my Mac fanatic friends questioned by I did not have Quicksilver and I tried to defend my reasoning, but I realized that in actuality I wasn’t happy with Spotlight instead I just accepted it. I realized that Spotlight did not allow me to do even half the things Quicksilver did and I just accepted the fact that I needed to open other applications and use the mouse to navigate through different applications. All Spotlight really did was allow me to search through my Mac for different documents and folders. The best new feature was the Quick Look feature that allowed a user to look at documents without having to open an application. I still find that feature amazingly useful.

In the end Quicksilver in my opinion is the best application to use between the two. It allows you to do everything Spotlight does and more. One concern I did have before was Quicksilver taking up too much RAM, but it is minimal and therefore there is no reason for someone not to use it. Given the learning curve is high in terms of really being able to do everything Quicksilver allows you to do, but it’s worth spending the time figuring everything out in the long run for avid Mac users.