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Launchbar vs. Spotlight
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Senior User
Join Date: Nov 2003
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So - I finally got my copy of Tiger today (a few hours early, actually) and checked out Spotlight, which was one of my top-reasons for Tiger.
I was expecting Spotlight to completely replace Launchbar, but it does not. Not for me.
It's no where near as snappy as Launchbar. In fact, it actually seems laggy (0.5-1 second delay till the results pop up) I'm using a 2.5 Ghz G5 with 4 GB Ram and two 74 GB Raptors in RAID 0 and re-indexed serveral times.
Another thing is the outstanding (self learning) search algorithm of Launchbar that allows you to simply enter some random babbel that comes into your mind - it still will open the right App. Example: Enter WoW (for World of Warcraft) in Spotlight and Launchbar. Launchbar finds the right thing right away, Spotlight wants to open Screenshots for you.
I still have to spend more time with Spotlight, but as it seems, Spotlight will be my new Command-F while Launchbar is still my good old Command-Space. But that's just me.
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Join Date: Dec 2003
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15 inch MacBook Pro 2.16 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 7200 RPM 100GB HDD.
Dual 2.5 GHz Power Mac G5, 1 GB RAM, 250 GB HDD, ATI Radeon X800XT.
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Join Date: Feb 2001
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As its been said in a million threads now - spotlight is not a replacement for launchbar/quicksilver.
Spotlight is a search API. Quicksilver will be using spotlight in future versions.
I use the spotlight menu to search for files, and quicksilver for app launching.
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I free'd my mind... now it won't come back.
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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Bah, forget Launchbar. F10 works perfectly with Tiger and no need to remap keys.
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2005
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Did you expect miracles?
Rev a software is like rev a hardware: Most of the time it simlpy does not compare with a well developed system.
Launchbar is at version 4 and has seen years of steady developement. It will take apple a while to beat that. Maybe they won't beat it at all.
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Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2002
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I just think spotlight and launchbar are made for different things.... I've been running tiger for several days and I use them very differently. They live together quite nicely.
I've actually turned off everything but app, url and email indexing in launchbar which makes it faster. Spotlight in my mind is for data and searching within data.
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