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Detailed Review of Mac OS X Tiger's New Features
sammykrupa writes "I have just posted my detailed review of Mac OS X Tiger's new features. The review covers Dashboard, Spotlight, Grapher (Mac OS X's new graphing calculator), QuickTime Player 7, Automator, Safari RSS (2), that cool RSS visualizer, and all that eye candy (iCandy)."
Who are you and why should I care?
Isn't the ars review canon?
Especially Grapher. One of the most annoying limitations of the previous graphing calculator was the inability to graph multiple functions at the same time. I was holding off on Tiger, but I may buy it just for that.
Going back to school for entry-level jobs?
the article didn't seem to b e too in depth.
Agreed. Here's how he sums up Mail 2.0:
"It does not appear much has changed in it since the previous version except for Smart Folders, Spotlight Search, and a bit of a slicker interface."
Not true to anyone who's pokes around even a little in Mail. I looked through the preferences for a few minutes this morning, and there's lots of new stuff.
I think what we have here is the owner of a new web site trying to rush out a review while Tiger is still hot in order to get a headline and drive traffic to his young web site.
-- I'm old enough to have lived through six different meanings of the word "hacker."
If by detailed, you mean "fanboy", then yes, you are quite correct.
5. New interface sounds. Now when you drop something into a folder you hear a cool new sound! Ding!
I can not think of any reason not to buy Tiger for the $129 it costs. You should just make sure that all the Mac OS X applications you rely on are Tiger compatible.
There's nothing at ALL wrong with it? Nothing he would improve? No reason at all not to buy?
Man. I really wish we could get critical reviews.
It's amazing, considering all the great features in Apple Core Somethingorother, that he could not have used the built-in spellchecker to proofread his article.
One or two spelling errors is not a big deal, but I proofread my Slashdot posts more carefully than his article was.
One thing he doesn't touch on that I've seen in other sites is that HTML files are not indexed using Spotlight. This was a rude shock to me since most of my documents are written in HTML. (I don't have Tiger yet so that comment is not yet based on experience, but the warning seemed pretty definitive).
I think Tiger looks pretty cool and I'm looking forward to receiving my copy. But this review is not a credible information source.
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The treatment of Automator is particularly disappointing: the author basically says he doesn't understand the feature. Ouch.
There's little mention of Tiger's under-the-hood improvements, and the author doesn't seem familiar with the complete overhaul of Quicktime.
Other posters have cited Ars Technica's Tiger overview by way of comparison. I think the folks at Ars have shown us how an OS review is to be done. We don't see much of that quality at Slashdot or over at the hapless OS News.
This is my post. There are many others like it. If you don't like what you read here, go try one of the others.
This just a symptom of modern day internet, each has his/her own site/blog/mailing-list/developers/whatever-page, and a dispersion of effort will make no-one read what anyone else wrote eventually (I know i didn't in this case ;)).
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Just look at the ridiculuous amount of Tiger reviews on http://www.macsurfer.com/
That's why I'm waiting for the 10.4.1 release. it seems the odd point releases fix things, and the even point releases break them again.
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
Is it me or did Apple really leave a fundamental widget out of the Dashboard like
-- SYSTEM PERFORMANCE INFORMATION
I mean WTF! What is a dashboard if it doesn't tell you how well the engine is running. I was amazed that it was not included as a default widget.
This should come with Tiger. What a shame.