“Though they only constitute one out of every 33 computer owners, Mac users have long held a reputation for acting smugly superior to their Windows brethren. And with the release next week of Apple’s latest operating system software, Tiger ($129), they’ll have good reason. Tiger is the fourth and easily the most significant upgrade to Mac OS X (following Puma, Jaguar and Panther). Its main selling point, a desktop search application called Spotlight, is similar to a feature Microsoft is touting in its next Windows release, Longhorn—which won’t be out for at least another year. And that’s not all. Here’s what you get if you put a Tiger in your digital tank,” Chris Taylor writes for Time Magazine.
Taylor gives overviews of Spotlight, Dashboard, Automator, and iChat AV.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: “Mac users are smug” must be today’s talking point (and we don’t really need Tiger to have good reason; Panther does a fine job already).
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Exuding smugness, the Mac cult minority believe they have seen the truth – April 21, 2005
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I thought Microshit pulled that fast search from the first versions of Longhorn.
Favorite quote: “[Dashboard Widgets] look good enough to lick.” Interesting choice of words!
act? WE RE SUPERIOR
well, Tiger isn’t quite as solid as Panther but I’m sure a couple updates will fix that. I’ve crashed mail, finder, and software update within the first hour. And a lot of 3rd party apps either don’t work or crash (VLC, iScroll2, easyWMA, etc). Beyond that its fantastic, not perfect, but definitely a good OS.
Wellllll . . . can anyone tell me the significance of Apple naming their OS releases after the powerful, stealthy, muscular, frightening, and deadly jungle cats of de world, while Microsoft names theirs after . . . cows?
Look at it the Triumph way: When you travel to where one of de great cats has recently been, you’re liable to find dead cattle. And when you come upon places where cows have recently been, you’re likely to find . . . shit!
Yeh-heh-hessssss.
triumph . . . microsoft named their vapor os after a cow because their uses act in a herd mentality
: johnny boy …. sure you did!
“look good enough to lick”
thats what mr jobs said about the OS X GUI when he showed aqua for the first time
Just because it’s not on shelves doesn’t mean it’s not out there.
The Official Bit Torrent client crashes in Tiger too.
Apple probably shouldn’t name 10.5 “sabre-tooth” either… a name which has been casually mentioned (unless it’s known that’s it’s name)
And just why not?
Well, aren’t sabre-tooth tigers extinct?
I don’t think it would be overly brilliant to name the next generation OS after an extinct animal. Not good association, regardless of it’s power.
[Then again, the way things are going for the big cats, maybe they’ll be extinct before too long themselves.]
Yes longhorn, or as I call it stubby won’t have the search feature that was supposed to be one of it’s main big new features.
We Mac users have a right to be smug. Windows users were so smug back in the 90’s talking crap about Macs. Well guess what? What comes around goes around and now it’s our turn.
triumph: when you come upon places where cows have recently been, you’re likely to find . . . shit!
Hrmmmm.. so people are going to be downloading the GM huh?
Then doesn’t it make sense that Apple would wait until April 30th to release an update that fixes any stabilitiy issues?
I mean.. if people are DL-ing the OS a week before it’s released and reporting that it’s buggy.. then great for Apple.. those kinds of comments will discourage piracy…
I seriously think that when faced with the decision, between parting with 130 bucks and waiting a couple days to Download, Burn, Install a pirated copy of the software (which you may get caught for having if you ever call AppleCare) most people will buy the lisence with all the included documention.
Not alot of people have DVD burners, too…
I mean.. it’s just that we don’t have an option right now.. wait, or steal..
The thing about the cow, was great, and I didn’t know they named it after a cow. Once again reality is funnier than stuff I would make up. Tiger will be true 64 bit. Now can anyone tell me if the 64 bit hardware has not been used to it’s full capability, because you really need to have 64 bit hardware/OS 64 bit. What kinda improvement are we talking about with that combo?
Smug?
Well, I just discovered that if you hit the tilde ~ key, (the one below esc) when you’re in expose (f9 or f10) you go through each app in it’s appropriate expose view.
Amazing!
I also just discovered GraphicConverter after being frustrated that there appeared to be no good Mac counterpart to ACDSee (stupid name).
You bet I’m smug. So smug I lick my iMac in front of Windows users.
Yum.
Cool Tip Neil, Thanks!
The very fact that patchers say Mac Users are smug tells you something. They wouldn’t say that unless some part of them felt we had a reason to be smug.
If OS X was not in fact better, the word would be ‘delusional’ and not smug. Which would be the proper word to use for Windows Users who think their OS is superior – “The Windows User informed me his OS was just as secure in a quite delusional manner with a delusional grin on his face”
What is this BS about only 1 in 33 computer users owning Macs? Can anyone point me and the misguided Mr. Taylor to some real installed-base stats? I just know that the Mac’s 3% share of sales is far below the % share of users, given how long we all hang onto our Macs. Couldn’t find an email link on the Time site to set the author straight.
Couldn’t find an email link on the Time site to set the author straight.
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Ah I guess the writer has other things to do this week than read emails from Mac users…
Here’s another one.. Paul Thurrott says 98% of iPods are sold to Windows users (e.g.. A lot of bank tellers, apparently, use iTunes). Numbers to back up this claim? Pffft.. Hell no.. Rhetoric is a lot more effective.
Oh, this is making me so mad, wait till the Windows COW comes out and shows how operating system should be done. Grrr…Even XP already kicks ass (or donkey I don’t care) &*%•ª¶º∞¢¢¢–¥¨ˆƒ
……oops had to re-start. What I was about to say: Go ahead and Start Something. I have started this computer several times today already. Long live ex-pee! Hmm, maybe the Longhorn should be named YP, UP or PU to keep the names consistant.
C’mon, Longhorn should be named what we all know it is: BULL!!
Longhorn will never be finished because it’s being designed [MW] on Windoze: <i>Drat … not agin! Uhh … can someone pull the plug? Dang, I forgot to backup agin. Naah, the switch is broken. Just pull it, OK?<i>