More Than 100 New Features Push “Panther” Way Ahead of Competition

• an enhanced Mail application that organizes email into convenient threads with drag-and-drop addressing and a Safari™-based engine for displaying HTML formatted email;
• Fast User Switching, allowing users to share a single Mac and quickly switch between accounts without having to quit running applications and completely logout of the system;
• Pixlet, the first studio-grade codec for filmmakers that was developed in conjunction with Pixar to deliver breathtaking HD-quality video on the Mac that is free from visual artifacts;
• a fully integrated iDisk that increases productivity by automatically syncing a user’s offline work to their .Mac Internet server storage once they’re online again, so users can work locally on files with hard drive speeds and have them synced automatically back to their iDisk later;
• integrated faxing synched with the Address Book so sending and receiving faxes is as easy as printing, and includes support for adding cover pages;
• Font Book, a new application that provides system-level font management with double-click font preview, one-click installation and an intuitive iTunes®-like interface for managing font collections, and searching, activating and deactivating fonts; and
• a significantly improved Preview application that is the world's fastest PDF reader with super-fast text searching that builds an instant index of search results in a PDF, text selection and copying, URL support and support for the PDF 1.4 format. Preview leverages powerful improvements to Quartz filtering technology such as colorspace conversion, image sampling and compression for advanced PDF workflows.