Totally uninspired by Tiger

[smithy]

Well the only reason im interested in upgrading to Tiger is for just a general performance increase of my eMac, Dashboard, Spotlight (might be handy one day), and the menu bar. I used Konf once i didnt really like it that much it seemed to eat up alot of the resources, but im really looking forward to dashboard.

[Natobasso]

As usual these updates are just window dressing for the user but great for the UNIX and hard-coders out there. How many times do you really need to check the weather, eh? If Konfab is out there, why would Apple need to spend time and money developing their own Konfab?! Not exactly ground breaking.

Don't get me wrong, I love OS X (I'd thought I'd never go to OS X about 3 years ago, now I will never go back to 9!) but many of these updates get us all excited only to leave the bad aftertaste of incompatibilities and unexpexted program crashes.

[ApeintheShell]

Well the difference is Apple's design and user interface. I used the demo for Konfabulator and wasn't all that impressed. Some shareware makers do a great job but lately I have seen applications pieced together such as QuarkXPress or Limewire. Also consider the creators of Konfabulator. They were very angry when Apple announced Dashboard and began promoting their product as the original Dashboard. That may get them some customers but over time they will have to add some incentive like design and user interface to draw the larger crowd. If that is their target audience.

I would like Tiger for my graduation present but may not get it. I wasn't inspired by Panther because I heard so much about it. Did not use Exposé except for showing off or when i really really really needed it. It all depends on your needs and outlook on new functions in Mac OS X.

[adambyte]

Heh. That's interesting... When Pather came out, I saw it, and was amazed by it. I always thought, 'What would be really neat would be if I could "zoom out" and see all my windows at the same time.... and Panther had Expose, and I love it. I can't stand using a computer without it. To me, Expose was worth the price of Panther, alone. Everything else that came with Panther were just nicities...

Tiger, however... I dunno.... I have QuickSilver, so I'm not in any dire need of Spotlight... though, I think my parents are in need of Spotlight. And Dashboard? Ironically, I think I'll only use it if they make it so the widgets can hang around, just like Konfabulator.... I always thought Konfabulator was neat, but never that worth price of admission, considering there are other free utilities...

Tiger? Maybe. We'll see.

[blue&whiteman]

Originally Posted by adambyte

Heh. That's interesting... When Pather came out, I saw it, and was amazed by it. I always thought, 'What would be really neat would be if I could "zoom out" and see all my windows at the same time.... and Panther had Expose, and I love it. I can't stand using a computer without it. To me, Expose was worth the price of Panther, alone. Everything else that came with Panther were just nicities...

Tiger, however... I dunno.... I have QuickSilver, so I'm not in any dire need of Spotlight... though, I think my parents are in need of Spotlight. And Dashboard? Ironically, I think I'll only use it if they make it so the widgets can hang around, just like Konfabulator.... I always thought Konfabulator was neat, but never that worth price of admission, considering there are other free utilities...

Tiger? Maybe. We'll see.

wow. its like we are the same person.. I totally agree with everything you said.

[Convert]

Is Tiger to Panther (lets say... 10.3.1) as Longhorn will be to Windows XP? Is it that big of an upgrade? I know that the low price suggests not.

[scruffy]

There's a lot of big stuff in Tiger that doesn't have a flashy GUI - core data, which gives developers all sorts of nice features basically for free. core graphics, which developers of graphics apps will probably start building into their apps. Lots of features that are nice and useful to administrators, like access control lists for files (rather than plain old user/group/other permission bits)...

So, you might not see a lot of difference, but I suspect many programs will come out that require 10.4, or that have better features in 10.4, because it's just so easy to do cool things with the tools that 10.4 gives to developers.

And really - isnt' that what makes an OS good - that there are programs for it that do cool things?

[markceltic]

I find myself on the fence when it comes to this release.For now I don't have so much on my system that I need spotlight,dashboard I'm not that busy of a person I need to see what is going on every second of the day for whatever.Since I'm not a developer or an administrator well no blood pressure increase again. ` So far the only things that captured my attention were Mail,Quicktime,Safari you say well I like'em.As for iChat enhancements the thing is almost a bust the way it is now.Six people in my buddy list big deal & only one has a webcam. I'm finding it hard to justify the $165. Canadian approximately.