Geez, so much half-star-rating and gnashing of teeth...

First of all, it seems half of you are complaining that it's not changing enough, the rest that it's changing too much. Do you want progress, or stagnation? It's new, it's different, it's moving in a direction that makes sense considering that Apple's selling four iDevices for each Mac.

IMNSHO, this is a pretty minor release, comparable to the upgrade from Leopard to Snow Leopard. Most of the improvements are in consistency in the user experience; in more polished apps; and exposing APIs to private features already in 10.7.

Secondly, no one's gonna hold a gun to your head to install it. If you don't like it, don't buy it.

Thirdly, we don't even know if Apple's gonna charge you for the upgrade. 10.0–10.5 cost $129; 10.6 was a "minor" upgrade, and appropriately cost a mere $29. Apple got generous with 10.7, a more major release, and kept it $29; since this is a SL-like "minor" release, and since Apple's making money like a drug cartel, they just might give it away.

Fourthly, it seems the vast majority of you HAVEN'T EVEN RUN IT YET. Talk about uninformed opinions... Give it a while, read the inevitable in-depth reviews, and maybe *then* form an preliminary opinion; even better, wait until you actually installit and use it in daily use before you bless us with your *informed* opinions.

I stuck with BananaTV for a while, because it was more reliable, but AirServer 3 is rock solid. I run it on my home theater Mac Mini, so it works just like an AppleTV. Sweet!

Now, with the Media Center Safari Extension, I can be surfing, find an interesting video on YouTube, Vimeo etc., and with a click, put it up on the big screen to share.

What I don't get is, why doesn't Apple bake this functionality right into Safari/QTPlug/QTPlayer/iTunes? They tout the technology, but don't give you even basic tools to use it on OS X, whereas you can send *any* media from your iPhone/iPad to an AirPlay device. Doesn't make sense.

I dunno 'bout this "rapid release" crap. One of Firefox's strengths is the wealth of extensions available, but they generally only function in the current *stable* version, not the betas; and with these rapid releases, the extension devs barely have time to get compatible with the current release before a *new* release comes around. It's getting ridiculous.

Could the natural language parser be extended to handle Tasks or To Dos? If so, I might never need to launch iCal ever again. ;{)

Let's see, how would it recognize a task? Maybe if you don't specify a date or time: "Go to the bank". Right now, that sort of text is translated into an event at 9:00am today, which isn't terribly useful, so it could work for tasks.

But then, you might need to specify a due date and/or time; maybe use keywords like "by" and/or "before"? Like this: "Go to the bank by tomorrow at 5pm".

Any chance you could add AirPlay support? MPlayerX is a great player on my MacBook Pro, but the option to stream video to an tv or other AirPlay receiver would make it head-and-shoulders better than the competition!

I've tried MacUpdate Desktop several times over it's history; I never cared for the early versions, VersionTracker's app always was more stable and reliable. But with VT gone, and AppFresh chronically incomplete and out of date, I thought I'd give this one another try.

All in all, it's a huge improvement over those early versions. The latest 5.0.8 version is blazing fast at scanning and finding updates. Even the installation feature — which I've never entirely trusted in previous versions — works very well. I like the way you can archive the old version, too, just to be safe.

However, I think I've found a bug: while it lists the apps in ~/Applications, every one is grayed out, and shown as "Information Unavailable". Since I like to keep my non-Apple apps there, this severely limits the app's usefulness.