New features are uninspired.
If you're new to Norton Utilities for Macintosh, or you're running the Mac OS X beta and seek the kind of protection NUM can provide, version 6.0 is worth a look. The value of the few new features is difficult to discern. And while the latest version of UnErase did manage to recover about 33 percent more files from our Zip disk than did UnErase 5.0.3, few of the recovered files contained usable data. The updated Speed Disk is more flexible, allowing you to select from a few optimization profiles. These settings do speed up the optimization process, but once the volume is optimized, you probably won't notice a performance gain from the drive.