Tiger - Page 5

**fryke** · #33 October 14th, 2005, 04:29 AM

Btw.: Does anyone know what Photoshop really _does_ when in its preferences you set the memory useage thingie? It seems odd that with a system like OS X I can set ONE application to take like 50% of my memory. It's the only application that has that 'feature' I think, and it kinda worries me. If I set it too high, does that affect my system performance? If too low, my Photoshop performance? What's a good value? Can't Adobe just decide that for its users?!

Veljo · #34 October 17th, 2005, 12:45 AM

I think Photoshop relies on scratch disks more than anything, so I don't think it will use as much RAM as you specify, unless you have some kind of huge file open. Just a guess

destructospin · #35 November 3rd, 2005, 01:46 AM

Photoshop does rely heavily on scratch disks, that is if you have a fairly limited amount of ram
and extremely large files
i wouldn't recommend setting the ram usage of PS to more than 60%
keep in mind, you have an OS to run, and all the background stuff with it

Mobius Rex · #36 December 2nd, 2005, 11:04 AM

I'd say Tiger is still in beta, and likely will be for a good while. Rather than working out most, if not all, of the bugs before putting it on the market, Apple realizes that it means a lot more money in their pockets if they do the following: launch a big hype campaign well before the product is released and is really ready, then wait for the herd of sheeple, who really must be first on their block to have the absolutely latest Apple product, to madly rush to the store and buy it. Then wait for the new purchasers to do the in-depth testing that they should have done beforehand.
I'm still running OS 10.3.9 because it's solid, stable and smooth. I don't need or even want gimmicks. I don't even use Expose.
Will I eventually get Tiger? Perhaps, but not for at least a year,
after most of Tiger's bugs are fixed AND I can be persuaded that Tiger offers a demonstrably superior user experience than Panther.

**fryke** · #37 December 3rd, 2005, 12:20 AM

That was maybe true for 10.4-10.4.2, but with 10.4.3, most of the gripes _I_'ve had are gone. Spotlight, I fear, won't *ever* become as useful to me as simple filename-based search was in Panther, but that's not something Apple seems to consider a bug. Rather, they want to urge me to forget my file names and remember the content. :P

Either way: I don't think Apple released Tiger prematurely. There are some conceptual issues I have with Tiger, but bug-wise, Tiger has been better for me than Panther (comparing the early versions of each, not 10.3.9 vs. 10.4.0, which wouldn't make much sense...).

Viro · #38 December 3rd, 2005, 07:36 AM

Tiger is most definitely not a Beta. I've been using it since the day it was released, and I have pretty much no gripes with it. All my apps work nicely, and games get a slightly better boost thanks to the newer OpenGL drivers (thinking of WoW especially). Spotlight is nice, and works for most things as well.

nixgeek · #39 December 3rd, 2005, 09:53 AM

Well, as with any .0 release, it's always going to have issues, hence why 10.3.9 was very solid for Mobius Rex. Of course, that upgrade didn't go smothly for anyone either.

As for usage in 10.4.3, I'm actually quite happy with it. It works like a champ and has yet to crap out on me. Only once did I get a kernel panic but that was of my own doing.

My only issues with it are the interface inconsistencies. If they could just fix that up, I would be happy. Considering that KDE does a good job of trying to unify different widgets like GTK and others (sometimes through the help of the gtk-qt engine), and it is by far nowhere near the ease of use of OS X, why is it so hard for Apple to do the same if not better?

kainjow · #40 December 3rd, 2005, 10:50 AM

I agree with everyone above. 10.4.3 is excellent, and has fixed all the problems I was having. I can now recommend people to upgrade to it