Review worth checking out

I came upon this review of the new 17" intel imac on a site called "Ars technica". It's very thorough. It's kind of long (8 pages) but if you've got the time it's worth reading. It includes a breakdown of all the components and the architecture, software, benchmarks, and comparisons to a G5 imac and a Powermac G5. It even addresses booting Windows (no, it didn't work!). Apparently they did not have a 20" imac to test, but it gets the job done anyway.
All in all, it's very positive. It seems pretty objective as these people review a lot more than just Macs, so they are far from prejudiced toward the Mac.
Here's the link to page 1:
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/imac-coreduo.ars/1

I took your advice and searched the site for "finder".
Just finished skimming through an article on "The Spatial Finder" that has my head swimming. I see this author has some very definite ideas about what is wrong with Apple's Finder and how to "fix" it. Personally, I have no problems with the finder. Actually, all you really need to find anything is Spotlight. I'm so used to searching folders for files that I forget all I have to do is start typing the name of the file or folder and Spotlight finds it before I even finish typing. I still try to organize files and folders in a standard fashion, but with Spotlight it's hardly necessary. I also like the dock and the column view finder. For me, it works well.

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