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Tiger's 200 New Features
An anonymous reader writes "If this hasn't already been posted, Apple set up a page listing,
by software section, all of the new features for OS X.4, or Tiger.
Given that every upgrade touts over a hundred features, it is interesting to see all of the enhancements to this upgrade to see what adopters get out of the box.
There are a lot which are tweaks, some new non-Spotlight oriented features and a few that are interesting, mostly security related features.
2 words: stealth mode.
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It seems that tiger is comparable to sp2 as far as adding features to the base OS.
Yes, but it's apple.
So it the google toolbar. Call me crazy, but a search feature != newos in my book.
yes, because the might tiger has features such as "save as html". I mean, did you even look at the feature list? Most of them are totally bogus "aqua calculator widget" and "Burnable Folders". Oh I bow before you mighty tiger, I didn't realize you could now save text as html, and burn folders straight to cd. Please, take my wallet!!!ONE!!
i'm feeling concerned maybe i just go back to Linux
Apple is afflicted by the largest percentage of "fanboys" of any major OS, and has been for a long time. Criticism, even of the mildest sort is frowned upon, and actually saying that you prefer something else, even if acknowledging that there are some very good points in OS/X or Mac hardware, is a hanging offense.
Oh, shit, I'm off topic! I'm in trouble now!
TWW
"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
The parent post is hardly a troll. If you take everything Microsoft has added/upgraded/improved *FOR FREE* since XP was released, it puts Apple and their yearly $129 tax to shame.
Windows, mice, folders, desktop metaphor in 1983 with the Lisa and 1984 with the Macintosh -> Windows 1.0 in 1985
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And in real world Xerox Alto 1972
http://members.fortunecity.com/pcmuseum/alt
Networking, introduced in 1990 with AppleTalk and AppleShare in System 7 -> Windows for Workgroups and Windows 3.11 in 1992
Again in the real world ARPANET 1969
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Int
Quicktime, also introduced in 1990 with System 7 -> Video for Windows/AVI in Windows 3.1/3.11 in 1992
Movie player? Or actual API and its usage?
Desktop publishing, Word, and WYSIWYG came out for Mac in 1985 -> Windows version in 1989
That would be Aldus with Pagemaker in 1980
http://desktoppub.about.com/od/history/
btw. Sillicon had dtp software long before Apple did, it just wasn't affordable
Color support, which allowed for Photoshop and other image programs, in 1988 with System 6 (Photoshop came out in 1990) -> Windows 3.0 in 1990 (And Photoshop in 1992)
Won't argue here
Signature Pro version 1.13.2-3 release 83.5 beta3try7 after-breakfast edition
There IS a *slight* *unnoticable* performance hit due to the added security checks in SP2. You'd probably have to run a series of benchmarks to tell its there though. Mac OS X 10.0 was so horribly slow that they have managed to make it noticably faster each release. Kind of telling of Apple's software quality.
"*new since Windows 3.1!"
And then three years later:
"We finally copied some of Longhorns features into Linux!"
"Derp de derp."
No. They're webviews because they're written with extended JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. They're extremely easy to develop and design, as a result. (And in this, I recognize they're strangely similar to Konfabulator widgets. However, Konfabulator does extremely odd things with its threads and child processes, so said widgets are the most amazing resource hogs.)
Do you even realize that the Active Desktop feature in Windows98 has and was doing this almost 7 years ago.
Many products used comparable technologies. How is this innovative for Apple again? Besides the fact that programs like Konfabulator perfected the applet desktop concept a long time ago as well.
Ya, we can run Web applets on our desktop, just like the Windows98 users could 7 years ago.. Hurray...
Oh, and we have Ok, and partially working RAID support now. Hurray, just Like WindowsNT did back in 1993, oh wait WindowsNT RAID support back then was more complete than what we offer even today. oops.
Give me a freaking break...
There are more 'fixes' than features, and bundled concepts they have ripped off MANY other companies.
How about the direct Burn to CD feature - wow.. Adaptec's DirectCD was doing this back in 1998 as well, it was an instant burn process, NO staging as well.
Apple should be ashamed of every feature they tout as THEIRS or INNOVATIVE or REVOLUTIONARY when it was a feature or function that existed in other products and OS long before Apple even got their act together in making a solid operating system like OSX. Shame on Apple for stealing thunder and then telling the world that Microsoft only copies them. Shame, Shame... Shall we talk about the Xerox lawsuit they won against Apple for the GUI? Funny, no one seems to mention it anymore either... Apple is now the INNOVATOR. Geesh...
Spotlight, the wonderful new search feature? (You say it is special because it is a Service)... Bull... MSN Desktop Search is just as freaking functional and it is an experimental beta for God's sake. It has API sets for application developers just like Spotlight (so it accessible just like your service) and also tracks and references MetaData that NTFS supports natively, as it has since 1993 as well.
Sure this is a great new release for OSX, and I will upgrade my Macs... But to tell the world how wonderful Apple is and how advanced this 'Tiger' is, is the one that truly is living in a cave and hasn't noticed the rest of the industry around them for quite sometime.
It is a good update, it is nothing special. PERIOD.
Sorry, but none of the things you listed are trolls.
Don't be daft. I didn't say they were all trolls, I said they were some of the highlights of trolls, flamebaits and offtopics. It's absolutely certain that some the posts were from ignorance (duh, I even said that). It's just as certain that some of them were blatant trolls.
So any one of the above can be (and usually are)
Wait a minute, if they "usually" are, doesn't that mean some aren't? Wouldn't that make them prime troll candidates?
honest gripes or questions about Macs
Uninformed gripes, and very few honest questions.
Instead, of course, most Mac people take every post as a personal offense and moderate everything down. That attitude is immature, annoying and ruins the slashdot experience for many people.
Because it's like a bunch of hip-hop lovin' teenage suburbanites complaining about how Beethoven's 9th is lame and old and how come he's never on MTV Cribs if he's so good?
If a post just says, "Apple is the new MS" and that's it, or says, "I'm debating between OS X and XP, so I installed Linux." or "$129 for a point release? If MS did this, you'd all complain about it." aren't substantive posts, just complete idiocy.
At least during the MS-Linux flamewars you can see high moderated posts from each side of the fence which makes the discussion fun to read and sometimes even informative.
That's because everyone's familiar enough with Windows to have a valid opinion, and most everyone who's switched from Windows to Linux has to have some modicum of sense, and familiarity with both Linux and Windows. To berate Apple, all it takes is some insecurity and flawed perceptions. Reread my list and tell me if any of those complaints stand up to even a minimal level of scrutiny. Those posts aren't made in the form of a valid question or inquiry, they're made as an uninformed attack against something they know nothing about. That should be modded up? They're the equivalent of "I didn't RTFA, but is the article submitter retarded or something?"
Honest questions about Apple quite often get modded Interesting, and posts critical of Apple's DRM, their suing of ThinkSecret and AppleInsider, etc, are often modded Informative. Posts complaining that OS X doesn't have games, or that you can run Linux and be free instead just don't add anything to the conversation.