The usual deep missive about a new Mac OS X release from John Siracusa. Exhaustive down to Spotlight indexing times, the mechanics of transparent application compression, the mechanics of QuickTime playback, and more. I like this quotation about QuickTime X: “This is just the start of a long journey for QuickTime X, and seemingly not a very auspicious one, at that. A QuickTime engine with no editing support? No plug-ins? It seems ridiculous to release it at all. But this has been Apple’s way in recent years: steady, deliberate progress. Apple aims to ship no features before their time.”