Tiger first impressions

[yanges]

i went to the Northridge, CA store and it was really busy even @ 7:30 when i arrived....

somebody won the PowerBook before i got there oh well...

i tried out Tiger on a 1.6 G5 iMac and it was pretty slick....

really like the audio controls in DVD, Dashboard was fun and rippled effect looks cool

Spotlight works well and could probably replace Launchbar for me....

they had iChat running on a mini receiving 4 video channels too! pretty nice display!!

all in all, Tiger works very well and i can not wait till July when i get my new G5!!

hope there are some big surprises @ WWDC in June as i really hope the iMac gos to 2.0ghz, 512mb ram, better video card, larger hard drive and dual layer DVD!!

Think Secret was pretty right on about the G5 towers so let's hope they got the iMacs right too!!!

[Lt Major Burns]

Spotlight doesn't seem all that good to me. it chucks out a few results very quickly, but then just acts like old panther search, but using more resources. is this just me?

[karavite]

Hi LMB, I have had Tiger running for about 10 hours and I have already had about 12 Spotlight success stories. After it did it's indexing thing (on my 6 drives - lots of video and images) I was able to find about 6 emails with app passwords, my latest resume (I keep updating them and store them everywhere), some picture files and every email I ever had with my wife. All of this was super quick and I am completely sold. Well, I do wish I could move the initial search field anywhere I want to...

In order ot appreciate Spotlight I think you need to try and find something where you don't know its name, type or if it even exists any more on your drive. Like my serial number for Vuescan, Photo to Movie or an email I sent my wife in 2002.

[fryke]

Yeah, but then WHY OH WHY did they NOT think about the case where I want to find the files called "script.pl" on my HD? It's as if in all that Spotlight hype they almost completely forgot about the most simple kind of search (and still the most important one to me). I _do_ remember a lot of files' names and there's really _no_ easy way in the Finder to find files by name. That really s*cks big time, I think, and I truly hope that they'll fix the Finder.

[123promotion]

i was critical at the start (bad me) but i never realised that it was indexing my usb2 hdd.....

i LOVE tiger - i am extremely impressed with the memory management that seems to have been improved greatly.

im using a couple of mac minis to run my business and now things just run a whole lot smoother with many intensive apps such as Dreamweaver et all open at the same time.

Anyone else want to praise it on this thread?

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Howabout using one of the other hundreds of threads dedicated to praising Tiger instead of starting a brand-new, non-unique, redundant thread?

Yes, I like Tiger.

[123promotion]

which side of the bed u wake up this morning :-)

[fryke]

Yeah. Thanks, ElDiablo. Merging now.