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Mac OS X Tiger Released and Analyzed

Posted by Zonk on from the grrrrrrr dept.

bonch writes "Ars Technica has gone under the hood of the Tiger release and offers up detailed impressions on the new OS X update. The review covers everything from interface changes, new kernel updates and programming interfaces, the unification of UNIX system startup services into one service called 'launchd', the return of metadata, to the fact Apple has announced that from 10.4 forward there will be no more API changes. A fascinating read about the technical details behind Tiger and the specific changes that have occurred since Panther's release 18 months ago." Today is the update's official launch day, though some lucky people have had it for a few days already.

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  1. Delayed by FuzzzyLogik · · Score: 0, Troll

    Many of us who preordered will not be getting ours today due to a delay somewhere along the line. I preordered on the 12th within hours of it becoming available and while other people were getting theirs early and people who ordered after me got theirs, i still haven't gotten mine. Apple emailed a lot of customers saying there was a delay and that it should ship "today." I think this is the last time i preorder from Apple, they promise and can't follow through. what a disappointment.

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  2. Re:Another good review by rainman_bc · · Score: 0, Troll

    There's no screenshots!!! I was kinda hoping to actually get to see that stuff being reviewed... IMO that's a piss poor review...

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  3. Re:HERE. by bani · · Score: 1, Troll

    i have a hell of a time getting a standard US ps/2 keyboard to work. no windoze key, so osx is nearly useless (hey steve, how about letting us remap the command key? kthx.)

  4. Re:Spotlight alone worth twice the price by be-fan · · Score: 1, Troll

    Slurp...

    I'm done now Mr. Jobs.

    Thanks Doofus, same time next week?

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  5. Re:Another good review by rainman_bc · · Score: 1, Troll

    Guess I pissed off a mac fanboy with that comment... Jeesh - modding my comment down as a troll because I griped there were no pictures? A review of an OS's new features, without screenshots of the behaviour of those features is silly, and I get modded down as a troll for it.

    Moderators on crack again I suppose.

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  6. Re:Another good review by rainman_bc · · Score: 0, Troll

    And that got modded down as troll too? Hahaha...

    Well I have Karma to burn...

    Again, an OS review without screenshots is retarded.

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