40 Seconds to boot damn that's fast, mines a little sluggish at the moment but I guess that could be due the fact that it shipped with 256 mb ram soon to be ugraded with a 512 stick to 766mb all this so that I can install adobe cs 2, but I might move upto tiger, as I'm forever losing my files and misplacing them lol
Brian On 15/8/05 9:38 pm, "Will Schoumaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> From: brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 15:44:01 +0100 >> Thanks for the link paul, now all I got to do is get me a copy of >> tiger lol >> Anyone find it better than 10.3?? >> I don't want to go to the expense to find its just eye candy and such >> that's >> changed. I believe theres some good bits but I just want someones >> opinion on >> it. >> >> Brian > > Tiger continues the progression of Mac OSX from Jaguar & Panther . I > say progression because there are no major changes you spot right off. > Ok Tiger does have the major change of "dashboard widgets" Small > colorful apps that mostly do one thing well and are located on the > desktop. This isn't a new thing to people used to Linux or some > versions of Unix. They can easily be hidden thank the gods ;-) Most > other changes take a while to find or notice. "Spotlight" is a major > change in the "find" or search feature in OSX. It looks a lot like the > Google search feature of most web browsers . Type in a few letters or a > word and there it is instantly. It can be used to find anything on > your hard drive in a fraction of a sec. Can be used to open apps etc > quickly. Disk utilities now fixes files that have been over written or > overlapped in the same place for the first time. Tiger also boots and > seems faster even on old machines even the Umax S900/ J700 ! My Pismo > powerbook the oldest supported Tiger machine boots in 40 sec ! Less > then half of what it used to take with Panther. Even the umax J700 > boots faster but not as fast as the Pismo G3. I am still using Panther > 10.3.8 as my everyday Mac OS on the Umax J700 . I've just been too lazy > to put all my needed apps on Tiger and or upgrade them as needed etc. > The other thing is my Umax j700 has never ran better nearly totally > stable running 10.3.8 . Once in a while the web browser crashes but not > the Mac OS. So just need to open the browser again and back to surfing > . The improvement seems to have come with not booting into OS 9.x on my > machine. Using both OSX &OS 9 seems to slowly corrupt hard drives and > not just the boot drives. Which means running Disk Warrior a lot to > keep things fixed.I no longer need nor use OS 9 so took a while to > realize where this improved usability of my Umax machine was coming > from. > I will move to Tiger in time but see no real hurry nor advantage. I > boot into and use it from time to time. Will S > -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
