A Brief Review of Logos 4
Logos released Logos 4 recently. I will be the first to say that I was not impressed well initially. After beginning to use it more, however, I began to appreciate it. With a little more experience, I have come to appreciate it greatly. Logos 4 is a great improvement over Logos 3.
Now, that’s saying a mouthful!
Logos 3 was great, but Logos 4 is superb.
The program defaults to a homepage when opening. That can be set to not open to the homepage, if the user wishes. The homepage is a little busy at times, but there’s much to interest one if they choose to read what is there.
The program still has the passage guide and exegetical guide that are probably the most used features of Logos. Because I have the Scholar’s Library plus much more additional material, the speed of Logos 4 when loading these guides is still not lightning fast. It would take an amazing computer to make that happen. These guides do load much more quickly than in Logos 3, however.
The program also loads and exits more quickly.
What truly impressed me was to type “God” into the search box and search my complete library. In less than five seconds Logos 4 had found over 1.6 MILLION instances where “God” was found in my library. While this tells us much about Divine omnipresence, it tells us much about the speed and power of Logos 4, too!
A very impressive feature that is both more stable and quicker in Logos 4 than in Logos 3 is the manner in which desktops are handled. They are now called “layouts”.
The best feature of Logos 4 is the fact that one’s licenses are always synchronized with Logo’s computers. One’s layouts as well as all of the books/libraries that they own are all available to be downloaded to both their home and office computers. They are also available should one have to change computers, hard drives, or have a loss of data. This particular feature is one that I used yesterday. I upgraded my hard drive, did a clean installation of Windows 7, and though I install much of my library from CD, it still lacked a few things, and Logos 4 downloaded it all for me while I slept. When I got back to my desk, Logos had my layouts and customizations downloaded and ready for me to use.
I would note that I have found Logos 4 to perform better on Windows 7 than on Vista. That, too, is a plus for me.
Why don’t you go give this outstanding software a try? They are a good company with good customer support. One can hardly lose by using Logos 4.
