Years and years ago, Mac OS had a reputation something like “computers for dummies” because it was seen as less configurable than Windows. To some extent that was true; to some other extent it was built to be used “as is,” with almost no changes necessary.
These days and in the past seven or eight years, the situation has been quite turned on its head, with most Windows machines I’ve used hardly altered from the factory settings, save for the installation of a few essential software packages, while everyone’s Mac is tricked-out and souped-up. Mine being no exception, I’ve long been quite familiar with many of these secrets of OS X, having turned them on in preferences or at the command line, but it’s certainly easier, classier and downright more Mac-like to have them all collected into one prefpane. If you’re running Leopard, try it out!
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