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Detailed Reviews of Mac OS X "Tiger" Preview
An anonymous reader writes "AppleInsider has been publishing some very detailed articles on Apple's new Mac OS X 10.4 'Tiger' operating system, which include numerous screenshots of the system. So far the publication has discussed overall installation and Spotlight search technology, Safari with RSS, a new Mail revision with
Smart Mailbox technology, and a websearch enabled Mac OS X Help application."
I can't wait until I can afford a Mac.
Avontech | Play dirty! They started it!
They are running out of cats for the name. Next will be Lion? (Wild guess) They should do "OS X Panthero edition".
Articles on Apple sure bring out the Trolls don't they? There's nothing worth modding up at all in here! It's all -1 Troll, -1 Flamebait, -1 Asshat...
I don't want to start a holy war here, but I need to vent guys and here I hope I find sympathy! I HATE MAC'S
Today I spent the good part of five hours helping a friend at his freelance gig with a titanum powerbook running OS X Tiger beta while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 5 hours. The amazing thing is at home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this MAC, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. Now, I got the job to fix this as I'm the "Computer Guy" and can generally help friends and family with there computer problems. I have never seen such a tragedy as the titanum powerbook!
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this TiBook at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
I don't, I really don't, see how Apple can claim to be tops in design. Even my A600 was a dream to work on compared to this and it was pretty compact too!. Anyway Ive talked my friend into getting rid of his mac addiction, he will definately be buying a Dell next!
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
Didn't I *just* upgrade to 10.3? Now we're into a full year of using it, and there's YET ANOTHER paid upgrade to the OS?! And we're not even talking about a leap, like Microsoft had from 95 to 98 or even 98 to 2000. This just seems like minimal "add-ons" that they're charging full price for.
Also, is it just me, or does it look like the new Safari is only coming with the new OS? I switched back to Firebird on 10.3 because the current Safari is dog slow in comparison. I'm hoping Safari will be released to everyone, and not just to 10.4.
Can someone explain to me what the big deal with *search* is, these days? In all fairness, I don't have a mountain of documents I'm constantly trying to find stuff in. I have a ton of MP3s, which are kept track of quite nicely in iTunes. And I have a number of photos, which are kept track of quite nicely in iPhoto. Beyond that, I have a handful of documents, which keep basically organized within folders (Work, School, etc.). How many users are out there that dump *all* of their random documents in the "Documents" folder without ever making a subfolder to clean things up? How much of the userbase is really getting a benefit from all this hype about search, which Microsoft *and* Apple are gung-ho about?
Sadly, one of the best things that comes with 10.4 is the improved graphics-hardware integration which those of us with 17in PowerBooks will never be able to take advantage of (since, according to Apple, it can only be used by a handful of the most recently released top-of-the-line graphics cards, none of which is mine.)
I love Apple, and all, but I don't see anything that is worth the price of a full-OS just barely a year after paying for the last one. Making me pay the full price, a year after buying the last (on the DAY it came out, mind you, it's not like I waited a while), just so I can get a new version of the web browser and a few add-ons would really disappoint me. (Like with 10.3: Expose? It's nice... it's cool... I use it *maybe* once a week. Cmd-Tab and Cmd-Tilda works perfectly fine 99% of the time.)
As a comparison, while I like 10.3, I'm still not quite sure why I had to pay a full-OS price for it, compared to 10.2. Just like every other Apple fan, I'll probably empty my wallet for the newest OS, but it's disappointing me more and more each time when it turns out I'm paying for minor tweaks and add-ons.
Like I'm going to use half this junk anyhow, but Apple have gone past ugly. Downward curve since Next, and now spiraling. Looking more like XP for every day.
I say 'barf'. I say we start a new online protest. Dumping brushed metal is a small part of it - we've got to get good designers back in Cupertino instead of these twats.