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Rave Reviews for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
druid_getafix writes "The first mass market reviews of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger are trickling in with a big thumbs up for the release. Walt Mossberg of the WSJ says 'Tiger Leaps Out in Front' but complains about slowness of some applications - notably Mail. David Pogue of NYT says 'But with apologies to Mac-bashers everywhere, Spotlight changes everything. Tiger is the classiest version of Mac OS X ever and, by many measures, the most secure, stable and satisfying consumer operating system prowling the earth.' In related news Mossberg also covers the rising incidence of spam/virii in the Windows world and says '...consider dumping Windows altogether and switching to Apple's Macintosh...'. Previous reviews of Tiger were covered on /. earlier."
Does it run Oracle? Can i run JDeveloper? How stable is JDK 1.5 and Eclipse? Does JDK 1.5 even work?
How much memory can my 64bit system use on a 32bit os?
How stable is the new GCC 4.0?
It seems to me only have one major vendor for most of its hardware lines that is why OSX is able to be stable and clean.. if they STILL have performance problems why do they continue to push outdated hardware and expensive prices?
The main innovation in Spotlight is incremental searching, not waiting until pressing enter
s/onSubmit/onKeyPress/
Boy, what will those fellows at Cupertino think of next? I personally dislike things that search as I type - I know what I'm searchign for, and I can press "return" when I've typed it. Searching on the first few letters is just a waste of processing time, esp when I misspell something.
And from what I've read, it doesn't involve grep. It doesn't search filecontents, just metadata (which most of the OS X users I know don't even use). Windows Indexing Service, however, *does* search file contents, and was introduced in Windows 2000. You know, 5 years ago? Using that little NTFS thing that allows file metadata?
Apple may have put a fancy interface on it, but that's all of the innovating they did on this one. They have done some cool stuff, but Spotlight is not up there with the "most amazing".
Is it just me, or do the two most-hyped new applications in Tiger (Dashboard and Spotlight) bear a striking resemblance to two Linux apps that I've been using for some time already (Desklets and Beagle)?
"OS X comes with web server (Apache), SSH server (where's that in XP anything?), a SQL database, and many other things that you can't get without XP Professional or even Win2000/2003 Server."
You can get them all for free. Use Google, you may have heard of it.
"I think Microsoft's OS strategy sucks"
I think Apple sucks because you have to pay an obscene premium for old, was new-one-to-two-years-ago hardware (plus $249 for AppleCare) if you want to use OS X.
OS X is terrific. The CPUs and FSB are also terrific, although it's hard to tell if IBM is beginning to "pull a Motorola" now. Everything else in those PCs are Apple scamming their Macolytes. Microsoft sucks in many ways too, no doubt, but I'd rather pay the $100 Microsoft tax for WinXP Home than pay the much worse Apple tax.
Of course, YMMV.