“Mac fans are getting keyed up for the immanent [sic] launch of Tiger, which, according to Apple, will launch in the first half of this year. Macworld readers were asked: ‘What Tiger feature are you looking forward to the most?’ in an online poll. With 1,532 votes cast it emerged that more than a quarter (29 per cent) were most excited about Dashboard,” Macworld UK reports. “Almost another quarter (24 per cent) is looking forward to searching with Spotlight. ‘Crystal clear video in QuickTime 7’ was the most popular choice of 15 per cent of readers. While the next popular new feature, Automator, was the choice of 7 per cent. Less popular choices were iChat AV (5 per cent), ‘Up-to-the-minute RSS feeds in Safari’ (3 per cent), .Mac Sync (2 per cent) and ‘VoiceOver’s spoken English interface’ (1 per cent).”
Full article here.
Tour Mac OS X Tiger online here.
MacDailyNews Take: Not to single out one feature, but we’re really looking forward to Tiger’s Automator and hope it lives up to its promise.
Related MacDailyNews articles:
RUMOR: Apple prepping Mac OS X Tiger ‘Automator’ web site – November 10, 2004
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger’s ‘Automator’ feature alone could be worth upgrade price – July 08, 2004
Quicktime
don’t forget Safari RSS. That’s gonna be saweet.
Actually, one of the things I’m looking forward to is improved support for “Zones” (to use the AppleTalk term) in Rendezvous. This will make it easier to find my home machine from work.
It’s the one reason I might buy a dot-Mac subscription next year, as I’m sure my cable operator won’t support it…
DashBoard followed by iChat AV, SpotLight, QuickTime 7, Safari RSS. Oh yeah, and Core Image, that looks sweeeeeet! Looking forward to new apps that take advantage of that technology.
Spotligth! No doubt! It’s awesome!
IChat AV. This has to be the single most compelling feature of Tiger. If it works anything like the demo online. It will rock. Why you may ask. Everyone can understand it, and what it can do for them, just by seeing it. Every teenager will want it, to talk to all of their friends. or to see their boyfriend/girlfriend. Every grandma with a grandchild in another City will want it. I can see people buying Macs just for this feature and not using for anything but iChat.
I’m looking forward to the box it comes in. They always have very pretty boxes.
i heard tiger woods will come to my house and install the new OS on my mac. i can’t wait for that.
I am looking forward to a program that uses Core Image to replicate photoshop for free, at higher quality.
Use your friggin spell checker. You will find that the word ‘immanent’ is hard to locate in the dictionary!
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Just wanted to point out that your headline is a little misleading. When I saw it I thought, “Huh, I can’t believe Spotlight was on that list.” Then I read the article and realized it actually finished way ahead of the second and third items you mentioned. There are bigger issues to worry about in the world, to be certain, but I still think your headline needs an update!
And “friggin” is?
English Teacher is correct. They used ‘immanent’ when they meant ‘imminent’. Two similar words, but the latter is correct.
I’ve been buying Macs since 1984 (and Apple since 1981) and I still haven’t gotten laid because of a computer. Hopefully Tiger will change that!
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“And “friggin” is?”
Who friggin cares?
I hear Tiger Woods and Bill Gates will come to your house in a limousine and give you a hummer while you install 10.4.
“Mac fans are getting keyed up for the IMMANENT launch of Tiger.
I’ll bet he went to college to receive an edjukayshun.
Don’t ask ME what friggin means, I might tell you.
I played with the Tiger beta a few months ago. Automater was something I was interested in as well. I hope Apple has written more pre-built actions into it since I last used it, or it will take a bit of “code writing” to get some, for lack of a better term, customer specific actions. The potential is there, and maybe a user group type web resource will surface with lots of custom built “actions” available for download. I expect that to be the case.
“You will find that the word ‘immanent’ is hard to locate in the dictionary!”
Actually, it’s not. I’m seriously hoping that the writer did not mean to say “immanent launch”, especially the second definition of the word:
“Restricted entirely to the mind; subjective”
The Top 10 List (from the Home Office, with apologies to David Letterman)
10- Updated .mac that works like it should.
9– iChat AV with H264. The best gets better.
8– Improved Sync. They have rolled a couple of apps up into one.
7– QT7- We finally won’t have to pay for Pro to get full screen.
6– iTunes- New QT brings a new build of iTunes with new stuff.
5– Core Image Can you say more responsive? Sure you can.
4– Automator Scripting for the rest of us
3– Spotlight The Finder really finds stuff–fast
2– Updated Open GL & Video Drivers.
1– Safari RSS Apple gets back in the game and leaves FireFox behind.
And there’s always this: It isn’t Windoze.
Ed,
I know, the box is always something else.
I bought iLife 05 just for that green bubble thing on the box, sweeeeeet.
…Paul Thurrott said no on is really going to care about Tiger, cuz, you know, Windows is so great and everything. The antispyware programs are really easy to use. You can sit back and watch them for hours!
NoPCZone, ummm, Letterman didn’t invent the concept known as “Top 10”. No apology necessary.
(that said, the music industry might be after you for stealing “their” idea.)
Oh, my fave features, sure, iChat, Dashboard and so on, but hey, what about this Core Data thingy? That’ll prove most useful in time to come.