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."

Comments

Re:Apple Link

[billstr78]

Thanks for that link. Most of us who weren't at WWDC completly missed that on the Apple homepage, countless news stories and web logs covering the preview release. It's a good thing you are there to provide the link.

Re:titanum powerbook running OS X Tiger

[Anonymous Coward]

Whoa Deja Vu! Must be a glitch in the Matrix...

You could've checked your awesome cut and paste commenting a bit more closely before posting. Oh, by the way, Dell sucks.

Developer stuff?

[Anonymous Coward]

Ok more screenshots of the features shown in Apple's broadcast, nice for end users I guess, but what about some details for developers?

Does Apple solve the problems for international users? Or must we wait until KDE has perfected it and Apple starts losing international users? I want to share my shareware with people who's language I cannot speak or write. No I'm not a paying Apple Developer, so that are things a nerd like me wants to know.

Dennis SCP

Re:iTunes as a Teaching Tool

[yamla]

Ugggh! iTunes has some serious and very significant problems with its user-interface design and implementation for Windows. Now, I've used OS X and really quite like it. I'd consider picking up a Mac for my next computer. Sure, there are things I don't like about OS X but in general, it's the best user interface I've used.

But iTunes is not a good way to introduce people to the OS X way. In fact, it seems more likely to turn people off the idea. iTunes doesn't use the right mouse button, a serious problem for a Windows app. iTunes becomes non-responsive for long periods of time when used with my iPod. iTunes requires you use the menu to perform simple tasks like adding a new playlist (or at least, I could find no way around that). It also wouldn't work with my iPod until I allowed it to delete every song on my iPod, a horrible design decision that I believe was made for political reasons.

Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that iTunes is crap. All I'm saying is that it is a lousy way to introduce someone to the OS X way and is more likely to turn users off. I mean, come on... they can't be bothered to turn the cursor into an hourglass on long-running processes? They just make the UI completely unresponsive during that time? Please.

I'll happily introduce anyone who cares to the OS X environment, and expect after a couple of days that they'll be quite happy in using it. I'd hesitate to recommend iTunes to any Windows users if there's a reasonable alternative, though, and although it does many things well, it has far too many annoying idiosynchrasies to use as a teaching tool.