On Apr 30, 2005, at 3:47 PM, Steve Kidd wrote:
Just got to say it, Tiger rocks!
OK, I'll put my 2 cents in. Tiger has many cool features. Bu, If you are into aesthetics and interface consistency you'll find it is the worst OS X yet. They introduced yet another interface style with Mail.app and it is again inconsistent with everything else (even preferenes in Mail.app). Dashboard is EXTREMELY buggy and only moderately well designed. I mean, the standard way to get a close box available is to actually click the add button?
That said, Safari is fast and the RSS screen saver is cool. The initial update of the spotlight database was surpisingly quick.
And, I like how I can use rsync for backups. For those who want to use the command line tools with resource forks it doesn't just work by default. For rsync you need to specify the -E switch. I don't know about things like copy yet.
Faster than Panther on my G3/500
Well, I haven's seen any big speed increases on an eMac and iBook 1GHz. I would wait and see actual tests with clean installs of both. Every OS seems to run a little faster right after it is installed (OK, doesn't just seem to, does).
All my apps have been compatible. I haven't had a problem with Endnote 6, which is supposed to officially incompatible. And, even stuff like afni is running fine.
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