Tiger Differences

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Hey, I've been considering getting Tiger since it's launch, but I'm really struggling to find out what the major benefits of it, for me, would be. I know that I'd enjoy the new Safari and Mail clients but that's about all I can think of.

Out of the 'over 200 new features', which ones really make the biggest noticeable difference between Tiger and Panther?
 
Mail. Spotlight. Automator. Dashboard.

Very short "Optimizing [drive]" times after installing new software, unlike Panther which sometimes took 20 minutes or more.

Better integrated .Mac/device syncing.

Safari RSS.

XCode 2.0 -- big leap forward in my book, as I'm sure most developers will agree.

If none of those mean anything to you, then it's probably not worth the $130, unless that's chump change to you. I have also noticed an increase in system instability since Tiger, I'm supposing since it's a big leap forward and is only at the x.1 version stage -- I expect stability to improve dramatically with another update or two.
 
Yea, out of those I'd only really like Mail, Safari and the better support for devices. I really wish I could pay for just those (at a lower rate obviously) I might consider leaving it for a while and maybe upgrade to ILife 05 instead, as I've been using Iphoto a lot lately and wouldnt mind trying out the newer version.
 
If Mail and Safari are basically the only things you're looking for in Tiger, I'd say it's not worth the money - and iLife '05 is the better investment. If you can, get a look at Tiger yourself - in an Apple or other store with Macs. Tiger sure has a lot of little things - and I've almost forgotten about the shortcomings of Panther that I just couldn't live with any longer since I've been on Tiger. Such as that you can't select more than one file in the Finder, hit copy and paste them into a Mail message. In Tiger that works charmingly (and as it always should've been, of course). There are other things. But if Panther's good enough for you, iLife is certainly money better spent right now.

And Tiger will surely get even better over the course of the next few months, so waiting a little bit can't do much harm, either.
 
i'd say the biggest things (spotlight, automator, dashboard, mail) have been rather unused by me. (i use a hotmail account, mail doesn't like HTTP, i have never used widgets, and i have other ways around that, never used automator, and i found panthers search adequate) but i would agree with fryke, there are little slight subtlties which prevent me from going back to panther. that said, i wish i'd never got it, i realise now that i was completely happy with panther - 10.3.9 is so solid, very fast and very dependable. tiger is less so, and i rarely use the bigger features.
 
Decided to leave it for a while and instead ordered ILife 05 and with the change, Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield !
 
Everyone puts more focus on the stuff on the surface, there are a lot of things underneath that are improvements.

read this if you want some in depth

This is kinda how i feel too:

"Today's reality is that Apple has to convince consumers that making these [kernel] changes is worthwhile. The only way they can do this is to hype visible, cosmetic changes with lots of attention getting bling," writes one poster on an Apple enthusiast board, in a thread entitled "Were the Most Anticipated Features of Mac OS X 10.4 Just A Gimmick?"
Click to expand...

I took the quote from here, which is an article that basically rips apart automator, spotlight and dashboard.
 
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