mail vs. entourage

although i feel fondly for entourage, and love using features i had developed in my internship long ago, i am happy and contented to now use apple mail instead. here's where microsoft fails and apple rocks:

• entourage doesn't let you subscribe to rss feeds, mail does. i'm really up to date with the headlines of the world these days (um, at least today).
  
• on the stanford residences network, the gmail smtp server won't send mail. this is not microsoft's fault necessarily, but hey - it could be.
• mail allows one consolidated inbox where you can check new mail from both accounts. it also allows two separate inboxes for stanford and gmail. all at the same time.
  
• the search feature rocks. you needn't specify a thousand things (like in entourage) before clicking "search".
• the layout is better. this might be subjective, but oh well.
• you can write notes to yourself or to others, like little stickies. this is useful for me especially, since i can now use just mail instead of entourage and stickies.
  
• mail uses half the memory that entourage does - can't argue against that one. think of all the things you could do with that extra memory!
  
• with mail, the number of new messages shows in the dock. convenient.
• messages don't pop up no matter what you're doing, as with entourage. it's embarrassing when people are looking at your laptop screen and entourage shows a message alert that's somewhat personal.
• you can hook it up to ical, which, in itself, rocks.
• i'd rather be emailing now than writing this blog post :)...