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I've just installed a version of Tiger on an external Firewire drive, and I'm having a play about with it right now.
I'm going to check it all out, but wait for the 'proper' release next Friday before switching permanently and installing on my main 10.3.9 boot drive.
My K700 now has a proper K700 icon in the iSync window. Not noticed anything else new in iSync with the K700 though.
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Posted: 2005-04-24 00:47:07
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Does it appear any faster the Panther and is iSync gone or has it been properly developed
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Posted: 2005-04-24 01:06:49
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I've already booted back into 10.3.9 because the version I have is obviously not the final one! I've already come across a few errors etc.
On my eMac it seems pretty much the same speed as Panther, and iSync is still there - on the surface it seems pretty much as before! I think all the changes are behind-the-scenes...
I may play a bit more but I don't want to risk messing up my system. Think its better to wait for the final retail version!!!
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Posted: 2005-04-24 01:12:24
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the biggest thing i can see thats different is widgets. i have konfabulator and with that you can get widgets. you can get a widget that displays rss feeds as well. also when i tried out firefox which has a rss feeds function it was ok but hardly an omg reaction. all in all then i really don't see what is so special about tiger, especially for 90 quid.
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Posted: 2005-04-24 23:39:53
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Spotlight is great... that seems to be the biggest new feature to me. It's quite amazing really. It works very quickly (once the indexing is done), and I managed to find stuff I never realised I had!
Being able to search images, music, files, text, emails, calendars and everything else from one small dialog is pretty impressive. And the way it categorises the search results is cool. Makes finding stuff very easy and quick...
Give it a try if you can.
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Posted: 2005-04-24 23:49:13
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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).
cheers
Peter
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Posted: 2005-04-25 08:55:30
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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
Any tips would be welcome
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Posted: 2005-04-25 09:34:20
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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?
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Posted: 2005-04-25 10:48:28
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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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Posted: 2005-04-25 19:19:28
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Ah, this could be why Konfabulator does not always run properly.
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Posted: 2005-04-25 23:06:22
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