“When Mac OS X 10.4, better known as Tiger, was released three weeks back, I was eager to try it. I had heard about several of the new features and thought they would be worth the upgrade. So last weekend, I backed up my laptop and installed the Tiger desktop software. While the installation itself took about the same time as previous OS X versions, the boot-up time was significantly faster,” Yuval Kossovsky writes for Computerworld. “For the first two days, I cautiously used the computer in the same manner I always do, making sure that all of my applications worked properly, and that I was able to perform all the functions I had grown to expect from my trusty 15-in. PowerBook.”
“The system was stable, fast and offered no surprises from a usability standpoint. In fact, I could have continued to work without taking advantage of Tiger’s new features, and my impression would have been, ‘fast and stable upgrade … great.’ Then I began to experiment with some of the new services and features offered in Tiger, and I was completely blown away,” Kossovsky writes. “The value this upgrade delivers is truly amazing!”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Another great review for Mac OS X Tiger. Kossovsky looks Tiger’s new features and of Spotlight writes, “Spotlight releases the computer user from having to worry about folder structure and hierarchy, which is a huge change over the way we��ve been navigating files and folders in the past. I now have multiple smart folders that group my documents differently and let me view them in ways that a standard hierarchy could never do.”
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Mac users drool over cup holders, Win users just wanna drive 10 feet without the bumper falling off
i just wish the spotlight folder had the sidebar like in the finder window… i usually use spotlight to find a certain file and drag it into another folder in our network. right now, after searching for the files, i’d have to create a new finder window with the sidebars so i can drag it there…
The future is neigh….
Nigh?
A question for the people already using Tiger: is it possible to put smart folders in the right side of the dock?
CDR, just use the search field in your finder window.
Spotlight results will appear within that view and you can just drag the results to the sidebar or save your search as a new smart folder.
Cat Person,
Yes, you can.
You mac-people and your dumb eye candy, I’ve had it, so what if my computer gets a virus and I have to run virus software all the time just to stay safe, so what if internet explorer doesn’t have tabbed browsing, like I’d ever use it. And you know what, I think ti’s great that Microsoft is taking their time to write an operating system, and hope they take even longer at least they will do a better job than Apple who just pushes an OS out ever year and a half or so, and tricks everyone into upgrading by telling them that they have new features like Dashboard or Exposé, or what is that stupid program they keep tooting o yeah iTunes, haha who uses itunes? Who even uses exposé? I sure wouldn’t, I don’t need fast searching. I know where my files are, they’re on my desktop with everything else I need. And what is this CoreImage stuff? It this a joke? I mean who’s going to use it? Apple just thinks that they need to make everything work better and look nicer. Those stuck up slobs.
AC, take a deep breath. Then go hit your head against the wall some more.
AC – who uses iTunes? You’re joking, right?
AC sounds like classic John Dvorak.
AC, nice piece. Kinda puts the nay sayers in perspective, eh!
AC = MacAddict in (loose-fitting) Troll clothing…
Nice try, AC, but you need to be less sophisticated about the specifics you include about Tiger to appear to be a troll…
AC,
What a total moron…..
OMG, dudes, totally don’t take me seriously. It called a bad joke. LoL, O well off to bed. (p.s. if you don’t get it, I LOVE MY MAC).
i luv positive glowing reviews about apple computers.
when i read them i feel better for my purchase decision.
if i read a negative thing about apple i feel sad, depressed and defensive.
do i have a problem?
I read the other day the quote that going back to win XP was “a joke”.
Well. Having used Tiger for a couple of weeks I did go back to Win XP – to rescue a friend. Her computer had stopped producing £ signs (keyboard config had’changed itself’) so no invoicing…help!
The experience of putting that computers keyboard onto a UK configured driver was a joke. She looked over my shoulder and couldn’t believe all the dialogue boxes and question screens that popped up. Interfering, obstructive, muddled, complex – you name it. Geeky or what??
I fixed half a dozen other issues too – she was pathetically grateful as her husband had racked huge -unproductive- phone bills to helplines.
PLEASE, PLEASE MAY I NOT HAVE TO SIT IN FRONT OF ANOTHER WIN XP MACHINE – AGAINST TIGER IT IS SUCH A BAD JOKE.
I must say. as a relatively new Mac user. (4 months), I am very impressed with Tiger, though I have had iPhoto and iDVD crash unexpectedly for no apparent reason. As a regular Windows user I am used to this, though Windows recovers your work in most cases. What I have discovered with Mac is that it simply does not These apps crash, again for no apparent reason, and whatever youve done is gone – just gone! Nowhere to be found – gone!
i love my Mac – I also love my Windows machine – I can see the need for both operating systems – the Mac is so creatively based, and so pleasant to use – Windows – it can be a pain for sure, but again, in the world we live in today, it remains the standard. By the way, did I say how much I love my Mac.
This great OS has been kept a secret, I assume by poor marketing, (hard to believe with Apple), and deserves the credos it receives. Wow!
Andrew, use Disk Utility on your boot volume. I use iPhoto and iDVD regularly and since there is no apparent reason for them to crash indeed they do NOT crash.
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Not one time so far.
If not better try deleting both preferences for iPhoto and iDVD and let the apps re-create thew when launching again.
You might be used to apps crashing regularly as Windows user. As Mac user I am not and I do not tolerate it either.
Concerning AC posting.
It looks like many still suffer from old-Apple times when we had to go in crusade against all attacks. Get a new mentality fellas, with OS X continuously improving, LongWaitHorn on far distant recessing horizon, viral attacks and fragility of Windows I could but not burst into laughters and retort with a “ROFLMAO, you can’t be that stupid, can you? Oh wait, you still using Windows. UHHOHOHHAHAHAHA”.
On chats and real life as well.
Start reacting this way and truly show how strongly you feel everything is so much superior on OS X that it does not deserve anything but laughters at all nay sayers. Simply laugh.
Thanks AC to show that some Mac users are still too much defensive: laugh, do not argue. It leaves them speechless – in real life at least.
The doubt they truly are that dumb is beginning to circulate.
AHHUHAHHEHUHOHHAOHEHAHEHAOEHHAOE Windows users HEHHOHEHHAHHOUHHUAOHUAHUEEHAO
if i read a negative thing about apple i feel sad, depressed and defensive. do i have a problem?
Now, now there … nothing to be worried about. Sit on my lap … er, couch here and tell Uncle Fraud … er, Freud about it.
“I am very impressed with Tiger, though I have had iPhoto and iDVD crash unexpectedly for no apparent reason. As a regular Windows user I am used to this, though Windows recovers your work in most cases. What I have discovered with Mac is that it simply does not These apps crash, again for no apparent reason, and whatever youve done is gone – just gone! Nowhere to be found – gone!”
Andrew raises a valid point.
When a Mac app blows up, your unsaved data usually IS gone. Interestingly iPhoto does a pretty good job of keeping its database up to date, and I’ve never lost any photos or changes. Other apps that don’t auto-save (or have the feature turned off) don’t fare so well of course.
Although there’s case to be made for better app design, would it make sense for a data crash-recovery mechanism to find its way into a future OS X? If Spotlight can track saved data, is there way to track open or unsaved data?
I agree with iPodder.
Next time someone says something stupid about Macintosh, just laugh.
Don’t say anything. Just laugh.
And then they will want to know why you are laughing and they will see for themselves…
And soon they will laugh at their own past ignorance as well.