Thanks for the overview and you comments, it is a big help for me. Frank
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behalf Of Henri Yandell Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 3:18 AM To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: Re: MacGroup: In depth review of Tiger (English version) Hopeful to find a reason to want to upgrade to Tiger, I scan-read through the article. By page: 1 - Introduction Waffle 2 - Background More waffle 3 - Tiger's new look Look and feel tweaking. Mail is apparantly much changed. 4 - Kernel updates Yay! I don't care. 5 - Out to launch Interesting to see if launchd replaces crond one day. Mainly don't care. 6 - Metadata revisited Apple still pusing this concept. Nice idea, never affected me. 7 - Extended attributes Interesting, but unlikely to affect the user. 8 - Access control lists Nice to see, slightly more likely to affect a user, but not by much. 9 - Spotlight The darling child of Tiger. I suspect it'll affect me as much as Expose, ie) I'll use it once every now and then, but all it'll do is save a tiny bit of time. 10 - Spotlight analysis and potential More of the same. 11 - File types revisited File types need improvement, lots of talk on this page but it mostly seems unrealised in Tiger. Something for the future. 12 - Metadata summary Waffle. 13 - Quartz 14 - Quartz 2D Extreme 15 - Core Image Three pages about deep graphics stuff. Probably means we'll see some nice apps in 6 months to a year. Didn't notice what types of gfx cards would support it etc. 16 - Video in Tiger More of the same. 17 - Dashboard Probably the most interesting part from the group's point of view. Tiny apps that we can share online, easy for a coder to knock-up and simple for a user to install. 18 - The Finder (not really) revisited Waffle. It's better. 19 - Performance Takes a long time to do the post-ugprade setup, but then Tiger will be faster than Panther on the same machine, allegedly. Wonder what it'll think of my 400mhz laptop :) 20 - Grab bag Lots of bits. Highlights are Automator which everybody seems to like but will probably be relatively unused by the sounds of it. Safari does RSS. iChat/Mail are changed. 21 - Conclusion Waffle. Conclusion for me is: I'll see Tiger whenever I order another Mac Mini. I'm still an Apple fan, but I'm tired of the hype marketing and post-hype dissatisfaction, so for my primary machine I'll be unswitching. I first switched 4 years ago in the same month that Apple released OS X by getting a Titanium Powerbook G4. It's served me well, drained 2 batteries of their life and is still good enough to keep up if I dared serve it another battery. The problem is that Linux has caught up with respect to laptops. I installed it the other night on a cheap Dell laptop and the only issues I hit were making the wireless card work (download one file and put in a directory to fix) and that it doesn't handle one of the three power-management sleeping options. Big advantages for Linux over OS X: * Java. Not a biggy for the group, but a lot of Java developers switched in 2001/2002, and there's now a movement to switch away again. Apple hasn't been able to support us, we haven't written Java apps for OS X in droves and Apple's customer service style has been a shock (we were used to knowing what was going on). * Keyboard support. OS X seems unusable without a mouse. Probably possible as I assume disabled/accessibility laws require an OS to work without a mouse, but I've never found it easy to do something as simple as restart the machine without a mouse (press power-button, then struggle to move the highlight from Shutdown to Restart). * Not an advantage, but a complaint. Safari is still a weak browser for JavaScript. * Choice. So many more options to choose from in the Linux world. It does mean exploring, which puts many off, but if you choose to explore it is often very enjoyable. * Price. The Apple development community seem to love trying to sell a relatively basic applications for 30 dollars. Some are gems (OmniGraffle), but others are just because people have the shareware attitude. Provided I'm happy using my Dell dual-boot XP/Linux laptop, I'll probably hunt down a laptop for the quality of a powerbook. Just thought I'd share. Sorry for the noise, but I figure negative as well as positive views are worth hearing. Especially when it's not just the usual "Longhorn will rock, just you wait" windows crap :) Hen On 5/4/05, Bill Holt <billholt at iglou.com> wrote: > Sorry about the previous send. I was confused. The sequence is > supposed to be finish and proof-read before sending. > > The review: > > Well, it was as "in depth" as a mere 21 pages permit. I didn't know > what the guy was talking about 3/4 the time. The other 1/4 was > interesting. Although Tiger is apparently a strong improvement, I > think I'll wait for 10.4.1. > > http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars/1 > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be May 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be May 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
