After running OSX 10.4 for a month now, I've got to say that I'm less than enthused. Among other "improvements" touted by Apple, I find Spotlight to be bloated and a CPU hog and it was the first thing I found a "hack" to disable it and reclaim my CPU. Widgets? Nice, but more eye candy than utility for me. Spotlight? The old Sherlock Find was more than adequate -- not to mention, Apple's default implementation of Spotlight makes it too overwhelming for casual users to figure out right from the start.
While there are a few things about 10.4 that I like such as Safari 2.0 and Mail 2.0 (among other little GUI tweaks here and there), I'm not sure it's really anything that "special" in terms of how Apple's marketing mavens are raving about it.....and after the month or so that 10.4 has been out, I'm more than a bit surprised about the number of mixed reviews it continues to receive from both power-users and regular users on the Mac boards I frequent. To me, 10.3 felt like a pretty finished OS. 10.4 feels "okay" but there are notable times when I'm holding my breath expecting an app to crash or something along those lines -- and I have had to force-quit more OSX-native apps under 10.4 than I ever did under 10.3. Coupled with new "features" that are shoved down our throats in 10.4 that are either half-baked or poorly-implemented...well, frankly, there's a growing part of me that is thinking seriously about going back to 10.3 on my 1GHZ TiPB. I'm curious what your thoughts are, those of you that are using 10.4. I'll aggregate and repost comments that come in. Rick -infowarrior.org You are a subscribed member of the infowarrior list. Visit www.infowarrior.org for list information or to unsubscribe. This message may be redistributed freely in its entirety. Any and all copyrights appearing in list messages are maintained by their respective owners.
