Martin O'Donnell is the proud owner of a new MacBook Pro. He reports that Apple Mail, part of Mac OS X Tiger is a significant improvement over Eudora 6, the latest version available for the Mac. Martin writes:

I've been using Apple Mail 2.0.8 for about 10 days now, and I've been pleasantly surprised at how good it is. Overall, I find it far superior to Eudora 6 on either OS X or Windows, mostly because of performance: when I do some operation that hits the {IMAP} server, like moving many mails, I see a symbol showing me that work is going on, but it doesn't block me from moving on to some other task. My Eudora experience was the opposite, I hesitated to do something like open an enormous spam mailbox, lest it bog down the client for 10 minutes and prevent me from getting any work done.

Part of the performance is undoubtedly the raw power of a native Intel application running on a (powerful) Core Duo chip, but I suspect most of what I'm feeling is the asynchrony that Apple Mail allows.

There are a few Eudora features that I miss that I haven't figured out in Mail, but I can't imagine going back to Eudora.

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