$69.95 ?? Must be dreaming!! - macalterego

If I hadn't had a special offer to get it for around $30 last year, I doubt I would have bought it, either. However, it has been a stable product and provides features I would have paid $40-45 for in separate items that would have each needed menubar space. This allows me to combine several services into one menu. So it's a touch call. Makes the $130 price for an entire OS seem not so high, though, by comparison! I mean, spending half the price of OS X to add a few minor enhancements, seems like a lot, I think.

Of course, the recent addition of the Font Menu at only $10 for existing users is a very handy feature. It's not as powerful as the old Type Reunion, but it's fast and seems to be stable.

Finally, apps like this are useful if they include features that enhance productivity, particularly in ways to help a person who uses their computer to earn a living. Some of the features could be had elsewhere as freeware or low-cost shareware, but it's not possible to find them all combined in a package that allows the user to preserve menubar space so efficiently. Plus, it's been relatively bug-free for me the past several months. The trade-off with all these addons is processor time and memory. As long as you aren't pushing your processor and memory overhead, then you won't suffer other than the monetary expense. But if you don't have the hardware capable of sustaining these "extras" then I think it's better to stick with the basics.

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Thursday, July 08 2004 @ 06:06 AM PDT