ok, enough rambling. wish list for finder? Tags. the reason its so easy in itunes to find a song in the 60gb library is because you can search absolutely any element of a song. tags would give you those elements in finder, also would require an upgrade to spotlight.
but if you think about it, tags is just having the hierarchial file system upside down, you see all the files, and you go to the files to have tags, and a group of files with the same tag, is like having a folder with the files in it.

in my opinion, you can work with either, and work well, as long as you think about how you set it out.

as for the file system of windows? umm… no! in finder you have all the folders you need on the left, everything you need regardless whether your a consumer or prosumer (i don’t think it’s good for a IT tech of any sort because its so hard to get down to the core of the system). in windows, you have the links to the folders all over your computer, you have some on the desktop, some in start menu, some in My Computer. do you not notice how they change this to reflect the finder in vista?

I think that’s a great idea for amateur users but that wouldn’t work for me. I simply have too many files that I need to keep organized in some way. For example, I’m a part time photographer and I have thousands upon thousands of digital images. If they’re all in a little cluster and I open Photoshop, it’s going to be impossible to find the photo I want if there’s no way to organize them into smaller clusters (folders!). I would have the same problem with documents. It’s an interesting concept though.

Keep up the good work.

On Outlook on Windows I can easily ad a language box so that when I open a new message i can choose which language I’m typing in. This feature exists in Pages in the inspector panel under languages I think. If OS X could auto detect which language you start typing in and so change the spellcheck over that would be amazing.

How are people out there currently using more than one language switching back and forth to make spellchecking easy? Am I missing something?

I would like to see Vista style window previews when you move your mouse over a dock item. OS X needs a better way to reveal what’s going on in an application, especially now we have spaces.

Blu-ray support also seams like a no brainier.

e.g of the former - a very useful feature of leopard’s file browser windows (open/save) is when hitting cmd-r it reveals the selected file in the finder. a small widget in the file requesters or a menu item when right clicking on an item might help more people find this feature.

the mouse button and trackpad defaults are ridiculous. Each time a new mac is tossed my way from a new user is to change these settings to enable right clicking.

windows has always had better file managers and though leopard has improved the finder to a point of usability there is still great room for improvement. A widget controlling to zoom of thumbnail sizes without having to resort to cmd j to open the prefs. Better file filters - why can’t i sort my files according to pixel dimensions?

also better a find in finder and mail too will help.

How is it you cannot also run mac applications from the key board? Ever function in the menus can be run from the keyboard via a keyboard short cut — if a menu item doesn’t currently have a shortcut assigned, you can easily add them in system preferences. Maybe I misunderstand your complaint.

Snow Leopard will have more features, heck - they list a bevvy of them just on teh Snow Leopard pages on apple.com

You’re such a Windows user

1) Be able to change window sizes by grabbing ANY edge or corner. If Windows and Linux can do it, whynot OS X?

2) Easy keyboard access to menu items. imho, the Windows way is much easier than the OS X way.

Hell, just buy Cocoatech, throw Finder away, and make Path Finder the OS X file manager.