Path Finder for Mac OSX

I'm in the midst of switching to a Macbook Pro from my 20+ years of Windows. I've always known Apple to have nice machines, but I've always preferred Windows and just feel more at home there. But times, they are a changin'.

I've been designing more and more for iPad. Besides the ridiculous file sizes created by working on a canvas that is 2048x1536 (easily upwards of 200 Mb per), having to design at 33% zoom kinda sucks. So in order to make my life easier, IT suggested I try out the Macbook Pro Retina, with 16 GB RAM.

So far it's been a decent change. The power of the laptop is the biggest plus. The OS? Meh. There are things I love, and things I can't stand. Other than the multi-touch trackpad with gestures and the power of this machine, I don't think I've come across much else that would make me "need" to switch. It's a great laptop, if all I needed was web browsing and Word docs, I'd be in love. But as a work machine, I find as many cons as I do pluses.

One of my biggest gripes is Finder. It's lack of features and the user experience makes me long for Explorer. I love being able to type in paths, copy and paste paths, the way things are displayed and organized, bread crumbs.

Enter Path Finder (http://cocoatech.com/pathfinder/).

Path Finder brings a lot of the features I miss in Explorer to OSX. I can copy and paste paths (in any format I want, BTW, Windows, Unix, etc.), I can see where I've been with breadcrumbs and quickly go up a few levels, tabbed browsing (Explorer doesn't even have this) as well as quick links to recent documents, changed documents, and more. It's $40, but will be well worth the investment and sanity.