Mac OS X "Tiger" Enters Final Candidate Stage

Orangez writes "Apppleinsider.com reports that 'Tiger' reaches the final candidate stage. 'With massive software projects such as Tiger, Apple will sometimes seed several final candidate builds before one is declared gold master...'" The final release has widely been speculated to be in the next month or two.

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Wonder how bad Tiger will punish

[cmefford]

current hardware?

10.3.x works quite well on Apple's current run of machines, the G4 powerbooks and such. I've always been a bit cynical about Apple handing out bloatware to punish the Apple faithful.

Now, the hype will say that Tiger will be /faster/ than Panther, (which really was faster than Jaguar, big suprise!) and so on.

If this hype were based in reality, Then Tiger should run like a raped ape on a Mac IIci, (which
shipped I think with 6.2) as every Mac OS increment has always claimed performance improvements over the existing product.

I have over 30 "modern" deployed at work. I am not at all happy about the impending release of Tiger. not without a significant bump in available hardware. Yes, the dual g5 (maybe quad soon?) is a wonderful box, but even with Panther, fully updated, it IMHO only runs as it should. You ask
it to do something, it does it. No more, no less.
Like Word Perfect 4.2 on DOS on a 286 (my personal
benchmark of performance). I've always felt that over the years the good folks at Apple bring stuff to a nice plateau, and then punish us by bringing out an OS that chokes our none-too-cheap hardware that WE JUST BOUGHT.

Please Apple, hold this OS until you update the platform (give us SLi) and then warn the
drooling macophiles that you'd do well to stick
with Panther until you can upgrade your hardware.

Thaz all.

--what's happening up the hollar?
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Re:Running older hardware?!

[drsmithy]

Any word on how it's expected to run on older hardware: meaning, any G4 from the last 4 or 5 years?

Probably the same way it runs on them now - barely adequately.

Re:before anyone else does it...

[qube99]

If you want to use those high tech two button mice in OSX you have to get the new version. Those brainiacs at Apple finally figured out how to make and support a two button mouse!

Although I do have to admit that an OS that even Terry Schiavo could use can't be THAT bad....

Re:Will it cost money?

[Chandon Seldon]

Did you actually buy enough RAM for the Mac Mini to run Java apps on it? Mac OS X is RAM hungry, Java is RAM hungry, and the Mac Mini only ships with 256 megs default.