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I am pretty sure you had third party finders with tabs and other features. Pretty sure you could download google earth too. Fairly sure that growl is kind of the same thing as notification. Correct me if I am wrong though

Third party vs built in.. I prefer built in. These features are decent things to have standard on Macs. Again, Maps is a tiny application.
 
Yeah, I never updated from 10.6.8 on my Mini because I hated using Lion at work, so never bothered upgrading. But the combined starting to see apps stop supporting SL and the free price for Mavs, I went ahead and upgraded last night.

It hasn't been so bad so far. I was reminded of a few things I hadn't liked about Lion, mainly the finder and little things like hidden user Library, but overall it hasn't been bad. I'll probably end up sticking with it since I won't have to worry about a lack of SW support.
 
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