Information need from the experts

Hi guys,
I am a new mac user. I haven't tried to use mail neither the address book but I would like to know what are the benefits of using it compare to Entourage.
I would like to keep using: rules, hyperlink (something entourage doesn't have), create subfolder and most importantly create my pop account. Is mail capable of doing so?
On the address book side, I would like to create groups, to be able to enter different information such as fax, home phone number, work phone number and so forth
Also I am interested on using the calendar, does it interact with mail and the address book? Can you select your contacts from the address book when creating a meeting? Can you email meetings using mail?
Please, provide any good feedback you might have.

Your computer came with a User Guide and an Introduction to OS X. There's also Mac Help available from the Finder's Help menu and each application has it's own individual Help menu. These are good places to start learning about Mail, Address Book, and iCal as well as iSync.
A good place to start for a new Mac user is here: http://www.apple.com/support/switch101/.
About midway down this page, http://www.apple.com/macosx/, on the right is a box listing the principal Mac OS X apps. Click on them and you will be taken to a page introducing you to the application. Each page has a link at the top right to a Quicktime Movie tutorial.

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