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Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Discussion |
Peter321
Joined: Feb 15, 2005
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I've tried the final release, and it works pretty well.
Finder seems a bit faster, but not a huge difference.
Spotlight is clearly the biggest new feature, doesn't look like much, but like Exposé in Panther, once you've gotten used to it, you don't want to live without it.
Dashboard is fun, but will be more interesting when 3rd party widgets are available. It's a nice way to have small programs running to be able to switch to them fast, but without them disturbing your normal work.
As mentioned elsewhere in the forum, iSync with P910 seems to work very well, and a small app is installed on the phone, I assume it monitors for iSync connections, but it does not seem to autostart, so I'm not sure how it's supposed to work, haven't checked iSync help yet to see if there's any info on it.
For pro-audio people out there: I tried the simple "How many Platinumverbs can you run" test in Logic Pro 7.01, and with 10.3.9 I could run about 100, with Tiger I could run 116 - so a 16% performance boost - not too bad I think (this on a dual 1.8GHz G5).
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the_poet
Joined: Nov 02, 2004
Posts: 92
From: Big Rock in Irish Sea famous f
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I have ordered my copy via the UK store, the next question for those who have been there before is do I :
Just install to upgrade the system,
Archive and install to upgrade,
I won't be doing a clean install as I don't want to have to reinstall everything.
I would rather just upgrade the system w/o going too far overboard 
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sapporobaby
Joined: Sep 14, 2003
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From: Finland. Kuwait maybe :)
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Doing a complete re-install is much faster on a Mac rather than a Windoze box as the Mac does not require constant rebooting when you install something. Second, doing an upgrade rather than a complete re-install is sort of like doing an oil change and using the same oil. You might want to think about the complete re-install. Also, you may see that you have stuff on your Mac that you do not need. I find this quite often.
At Jools. I am using Konfabulator as well. Do the widgets that work with Konfabulator work with Tiger as well?
*edited on a Mac of course. Mac: There is no substitute*
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Jools
Joined: May 21, 2003
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From what I've read Konfabulator and Tiger widgets although on the surface appear the same, underneath they're completely different.
Tiger widgets are written in HTML, Javascript and CSS, whereas Konfabulator ones are written in a proprietary Javscript Runtime Engine...
I guess it may be possible to convert one to the other...
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sapporobaby
Joined: Sep 14, 2003
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From: Finland. Kuwait maybe :)
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Ah, this could be why Konfabulator does not always run properly.
*edited on a Mac of course. Mac: There is no substitute*
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the_poet
Joined: Nov 02, 2004
Posts: 92
From: Big Rock in Irish Sea famous f
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My copy of Tiger arrived yesterday (290405) from Apple, installed it today, very easy to upgrade the system, had to reenable the haxies and shapeshifter but so far so good.
Haven't come across anything that bombs out in a major fashion apart from entourage (but that's nothing new !)
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themarques
Joined: Jan 26, 2003
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From: London, Tokyo,
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Just incase you all missed it, but if you running a PowerBook wide screen then you will realise that in Panther you couldnt watch 4.3 movies in 16:3 but alas that has been sorted out with a few extra options for graphic eq settings and also colour settings...Finally.....
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sapporobaby
Joined: Sep 14, 2003
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From: Finland. Kuwait maybe :)
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@Poet
I gave up Entourage now and use Mail. It is not as good as Entourage in many things but it is supported by Spotlight and this is the greatest. I have my PB set up in two partitions. Mail normally wants to sit on the home partition, but I have Mail.app on the home partition and the Mailboxes on another. You can not my an alias the normal way. You have to use the command line. If you are interested, I can forward you the instructions.
*edited on a Mac of course. Mac: There is no substitute*
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batesie
Joined: Feb 13, 2004
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From: London, UK
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@All
Any screenshots of the new features??
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sapporobaby
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You can get those on the Apple site or do you mean shots on actual user Mac's?
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haynesycop
Joined: Mar 10, 2004
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@batesie
your wish is my command
i have just installed tiger today on my powerbook
having only been using apple for just over a month i am no the best to be able to spot significant differences
here are a couple of pictures
dashboard
spotlight
if theres anything specific you want to see let me know and i will post some more screenshots
enjoy
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haynesycop
Joined: Mar 10, 2004
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bugger why didnt my pictures show up 
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batesie
Joined: Feb 13, 2004
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From: London, UK
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damn it, show me the pics!
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haynesycop
Joined: Mar 10, 2004
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the bloody things wont show up
i took screenshots and the extension came up as png, so i renamed the file to a jpeg
and they appear as question marks
do i need to convert them. if so what with and then i can post some pictures
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DJcreamz
Joined: Jul 09, 2004
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From: Luton / UK
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lol yer, just the extension wont do much, u can export them to jpeg using preview in osx or in paint on winx
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