OSX 10.4 (aka Tiger) is now out in the world. It has a wealth of new features. My order is currently in transit on a UPS truck between Dallas, TX and Memphis, TN. In any event, I still found a way to install it on my old PowerBook Saturday evening (maybe I used a transporter beam).
For those installing it, one word of warming. When you first start it up after the installation, SpotLight will scan every file on your hard drive. This takes a LONG time. About two hours on my old slow 6 Gig HD. I should point out that Tiger requires 256 meg of RAM, and I only have 192 meg. I’m a tad below specs.
Despite my computer being short of the beam, Tiger is running happily. The new Safari is rather nice, the Dashboard full of Widgets is nifty (I’ll be making one of these in the next few weeks if I get time), and I haven’t gotten to use it yet, but Automator will be very useful for us developers.
Now I just need a nice new fast Mac to try all this on! Soon young DocMM, soon.
Colour me envious — I have to wait ’til Friday. Getting a new 80 gig HD this next Friday - thanks to a friend who is going out of town, and I am kitty sitting. He insist that I accept money. I am so grateful - I could not have done it otherwise. New hard dirve and a Tiger in my tank. How lucky can I be?
You, young Raman, will be getting a new kick butt computer, very SOON. I feel it — you deserve it, right?
I look forward to it - I am learning to BLOG??? I wish I knew what the heck I was doing. Not nearly as good as you and JJ.
Be safe and well — New Mac on the way, I pray, for you. Blessings**
Well my copy arrived at 1pm on friday … I’ve installed it on three different systems now (12″ powerbook, G4 at home, G4 at work). The thing about spotlight taking hours that some people have talked about … on one system it took two hours, the other two it seemed to take less than 10 minutes. … or at least it didn’t tell me that it was going to take hours.
I’ve heard everyone say that tiger is faster than previous versions. I’m not sure I’ve seen that. Some times for no reason the spinning beach ball shows up. Perhaps some sort of back ground indexing process?
Since I have a .mac account I love the syncing of email folders, signatures, address books, etc.
Of course, we all need one of those dual processor G5’s to truly get the best from the new quicktime codec. This is the one upgrade that shows the age of my 977mhz G4.
oh well….
Blogging is more or less just a lot of babble. Gotta love that babble.
I also debate if 10.4 is faster or not, but I don’t yet have it on a fast computer. 977 G4…try running 10.4 on my 400 MHz G3. Oy.