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Dante
12 Apr 2005, 09:03 AM
Well it looks like Tiger's going to be released in 17 days. Apple's got it officially up on their site.
http://www.apple.com
I want to upgrade, but don't feel like spending $129 to do it.
IntheNet
12 Apr 2005, 09:17 AM
Well it looks like Tiger's going to be released in 17 days. Apple's got it officially up on their site.
http://www.apple.com
I want to upgrade, but don't feel like spending $129 to do it.
There are rumblings in the Mac community that Tiger is more of a fix than an upgrade; "Spotlight" search tool seems to replace earlier "Sherlock" search engine that was missing on Jaguar and Panther versions, and "Dashboard" Widgets utility seems to be just an overhaul of Apple Tools available in other varieties in new graphical interface, and claimed Safari Upgrade should be free, not part of $129.00 fee! New "Automator" tool was a utility as old as OS 9.0... Will 'Tiger' actually do anything new seems to be a valid question... the Tech Specs posted for Tiger claim that it needs at least "3GB of available hard disk space" so that's a bump up from Panther and Jaguar and still a sizable amount of hard drive real estate just for the OS!!! I bet folks wait a bit before running out and getting Tiger as they did Jaguar!
skipshady
12 Apr 2005, 10:08 AM
Well it looks like Tiger's going to be released in 17 days. Apple's got it officially up on their site.
http://www.apple.com
I want to upgrade, but don't feel like spending $129 to do it.
FWIW, you can get it for $95 from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002G71T0/002-1567152-7348029
I'm sticking with Panther for now, at least until I get myself a new Mac. As long as they keep releasing updates, I got no probs.
Achtung
12 Apr 2005, 12:04 PM
FWIW, you can get it for $95 from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002G71T0/002-1567152-7348029
I'm sticking with Panther for now, at least until I get myself a new Mac. As long as they keep releasing updates, I got no probs.
Being a relative newbie to Macs, I wonder how updates will work for legacy releases? That is, will I still be able to use Software Update on 10.3.x? Panther is up to, what, 10.3.8 right now? So will they only release one more update and then try to push people towards Tiger?
I like the Google Desktop-style continuous indexing that Spotlight uses, and Dashboard looks cool, but I'll wait to see how it works in real life.
chad
12 Apr 2005, 05:33 PM
For only 350.00 more Tiger comes with a Mac Mini!
skipshady
12 Apr 2005, 07:07 PM
Being a relative newbie to Macs, I wonder how updates will work for legacy releases? That is, will I still be able to use Software Update on 10.3.x? Panther is up to, what, 10.3.8 right now? So will they only release one more update and then try to push people towards Tiger?I'm wondering about that too.
IIRC, the last Jaguar update (10.2.8) was back in 2003, before Panther was released. They did release security fixes for 10.2.8 as late as November 2004.
So my guess is that after 10.3.9, there probably won't be any version updates, but you can still install security updates through Software Update.
Squash
13 Apr 2005, 12:40 AM
As a user since OS X beta. I can say every release has offered increased speed and performance of the OS on my various machines. I'll be buying it for sure, I've yet to feel disappointed by Apple. :)
Paul.eta
14 Apr 2005, 07:59 PM
Well it looks like Tiger's going to be released in 17 days. Apple's got it officially up on their site.
http://www.apple.com
I want to upgrade, but don't feel like spending $129 to do it.
get it with the educational discount, $69+tax shipped. i heard the video quality of the isight will improve x4 because of a new codec. i'm going to wait on tiger until i get some more memory on my ibook.
skipshady
14 Apr 2005, 08:18 PM
Completely minor issue, but Rendezvous is now Bonjour (http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/bonjour/). Lame, but I understand there was a copyright issue so the change had to be made.
Paul.eta
14 Apr 2005, 08:55 PM
yea it sounds ridiculously weird. they thought "open talk" sounded too technical so they opted for bonjour, which does sound better.
Squash
15 Apr 2005, 11:27 AM
I'd rather have anything but some weak name that a cartoon skunk would say. Carry on :)
Dante
15 Apr 2005, 03:52 PM
get it with the educational discount, $69+tax shipped. i heard the video quality of the isight will improve x4 because of a new codec. i'm going to wait on tiger until i get some more memory on my ibook.
Unfortunately I can't get an educational discount, although I head that Amazon is offering it for $95.
skipshady
15 Apr 2005, 05:20 PM
You heard right, kinda. You need to send in this rebate form:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0002G71T0.01.RB10.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
Achtung
15 Apr 2005, 11:36 PM
Hmm, didn't realize until I saw the form that I have until May 31 to buy it and still get the rebate. I might wait out to see if there are any major bugs before picking it up.
kerpow
19 Apr 2005, 05:22 PM
I'll wait a while. Today, applying 10.3.9 totally hosed my iMac at work. Is it easy to "repair" OSX using the original CD's? I can't get to the log on screen.
skipshady
19 Apr 2005, 05:32 PM
I'll wait a while. Today, applying 10.3.9 totally hosed my iMac at work. Is it easy to "repair" OSX using the original CD's? I can't get to the log on screen.
Yeah, I've done that before. I just installed using the original CDs, then updated up to the previous version.
So which iMac do you have?
kerpow
19 Apr 2005, 05:51 PM
Just a G3 -Turquoise. Still runs quite smoothly. I'm trying to persuade my boss to buy a new one for Tiger. Might be buying myself a Powerbook soon as well. I've become quite fond of them.
So you can just pop the disc and it will attempt to repair like XP does ie. leave the file system intact?
noaihmtch
20 Apr 2005, 11:20 AM
Apple copied features from Longhorn. What a cheater. I know Mac is a crap but never knew Apple was this low. Anyway, this Tiger whatever crap will be just a rip off of Longhorn for temporary. Once Longhorn launches with far superior features, it will put this mac crap into a trash can.
Achtung
20 Apr 2005, 11:46 AM
Once Longhorn launches with far superior features, it will put this mac crap into a trash can.
Super. I'll set my watch for 2007.
skipshady
20 Apr 2005, 11:54 AM
Just a G3 -Turquoise. Still runs quite smoothly. I'm trying to persuade my boss to buy a new one for Tiger. Might be buying myself a Powerbook soon as well. I've become quite fond of them.
So you can just pop the disc and it will attempt to repair like XP does ie. leave the file system intact?
I don't remember the specific steps but I think the simplest (though time consuming) solution is to re-install from the original (do archive install, not clean or update), then go to Apple's download page to install 10.3.8 or whatever version that worked for you.
You could also start up off the original disk and run the Disk Tools (?).