The download completed, and I performed a clean install onto my laptop.
The installer is nothing much to rave about: your typical Java look and feel,
and a surge of 100% CPU utilization on Windows XP during the last agonizing
four minutes of the installation. The UI looks good. Much better than any
Notes so far. I like the RSS feed reader on the sidebar as well.
Good job there (although I do hope it supports HTTP proxies; haven’t tested
that yet). I looked at some of the preferences, without actually changing
anything. Apart from this dialog popping up at least five times
which makes me wonder why those invalid values are there in the
first place (a clean install, remember?), I got an error upon hitting OK which
rendered the client useless. Upon attempting to quit Notes, and after
confirming that I really wanted to, I got this:
But
there was no Notes left to switch to. I killed off the tasks manually. It is a
Beta, after all. ;-) The Exposé-type view is sexy, but I can’t find
the Database menu anywhere (you know, File - Database, …), and it appears
as though the Workspace can’t be set as default. My allotted 60 minutes for
the first test is over.