Totally uninspired by Tiger

[padishahemperor]

I did seriously consider upgrading, but now have decided against it. I'll wait and see how things stand in 6 months or so. I must admit I'm not sure the new features will make a major difference to me, the perennial desire to upgrade every time something, anything new comes out is so silly, I've said before, this is something the Mac community has picked up in recent years. When I used Macs in the past (years ago) there wasn't this overwhelming desire to keep getting the latest hardware and software. I have no need for widgets and spotlight, maybe one day but on consideration, not yet. I wouldn't go as far as saying Tiger is uninspiring but it doesn't have enough in it to make me want to shell out cash for it yet. Panther works well for me. As someone who has just recently bought a Mac mini, I think Apple should have offered a concession in the price on Tiger, also as a former hardcore Linux user, the idea of paying for an OS is still new.

[texanpenguin]

I'm considering Tiger not as the amazing feature-packed OS Apple sees it as, but rather as Panther 10.3.10 (with everything how it should have been to begin with):

Where iTunes had always impressed with its search-as-you-type, now the whole OS (and any Spotlight-tuned applications) do that (Panther had both the Cmd+F Find File box and the Finder find box, neither of which I use).

Tiger adds to Exposé with Dashboard (I regard Dashboard as like a crap-draw, where you store all your stuff, if you have the Desktop metaphor everywhere else).

It makes the Address Book sensible, syncing birthdays to iCal and introducing smart groups.

It increases performance, and adds features to Safari, iChat and QuickTime (to mention but a few).

So yeah, it's a worthwhile upgrade, but I don't know if I'll rush to get it.


As a matter of interest, I shouldn't expect to get iLife '05 as part of Tiger, should I?

[Pengu]

the search field in the finder toolbar is already quite good in my opinion. on a folder with ~70 folders (in various levels of nesting) and ~1000 files, it is quite fast to find the file i want (obviously only works on file-names, dates, not meta data..)

[Sloane]

Originally Posted by habilis

Apple is really reaching this time with "Tiger". Stock quotes and weather are so 1998. C'mon guys, "Handy Widgets???" - yeah we've had these barely-useful "Widgets" on my toothbrush for the last 5 years. Everything else is just a cluster of uninspiring updates and bug fixes.

One has to have a brain to feel inspired

[baldprof]

Sheesh! I just wish I could get Tiger.

I pre-ordered and the confirmation guaranteed I would have it by 6 p.m. today, but no such luck. As of 7:30 this morning the FedEx tracking still showed a delivery time this afternoon. Well I was able to get home early so that I could be here to accept delivery. No sign of the driver.

I checked the tracking again and it had been pushed back to May 6. Then it was changed to May 4. I lodged a comlaint with Apple and asked them to find out exactly where my order was. Haven't gotten a response.

What really has started to bother me is that of the last six orders from the Apple store, four have gotten screwed up, usually because of delivery problems. FedEx service in this area has gotten to be horrible. Well of course I requested a different shipping method. So that's two errors this time; wrong carrier and couldn't make the promised receiving date.

So I missed time from work to be here, and had cleared some time for the installation. All for nothing apparently.
Well the last time I called and ranted, I got the shipping charges refunded. So I'l guess I'll do that again. Frankly, I am getting tired of this. I really am growing increasingly disapointed with Apple's customer service.
Now I know what some of you are thinking, this thing isn't that important, this guy needs to get a life. Well I have survived cancer, so I think I know what is or isn't really important. What upsets me is that this appears to be part of a pattern of poor service from a company I used to respect.

Well maybe I am just becoming an old crank. So be it.

[kainjow]

I agree with a few others above... Tiger isn't all that great. Panther was perfect. It did everything so well, and now here comes Tiger with basically (on the outside) a few new programs to use...

I upgraded just because I have to have the newest and the greatest (and because I'm a developer), but if I hadn't, I would have been perfectly satisfied using Panther.

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Originally Posted by texanpenguin

As a matter of interest, I shouldn't expect to get iLife '05 as part of Tiger, should I?

Nope, not unless you get a new Macintosh at the same time...

[ZP]

apple is really playing up dashboard but remember there are over 200 new features