With Tiger up and running I have a few observations to make. I found
this one of the easiest system transitions I can remember, in large
measure due to my prestudy of the two eBooks "Take Control of
Upgrading to Tiger" and "Take Control of Customizing Tiger" from
www.takecontrolbooks.com which give excellent rundowns of what will
happen and good discussion of the options plus some good warnings -
highly recommended for anyone still hesitating to take the plunge.
I opted for an "Erase and Install" with a copy back of my
applications and settings and whatever from a mirror partition of my
boot drive on an external Firewire drive. I had problems making the
bootable clone with Carbon Copy Cloner which annoyingly hung twice
about an hour into the copy. A switch to SuperDuper solved that
problem.
The whole installation process, including the copy back of all the
backed up stuff, done within the installer, took only 70 mins and I
was immediately checking my mail - fantastic! A couple of items had
disappeared from the dock and I had to reinstall my Epson scanner
software and Optical mouse software but otherwise everything just
worked.
A fringe benefit of the "Erase and Install" was that I seem to have
recovered 2GB of disk space, the last initialise having been about 3
years ago.
Tiger, overall seems a little faster and snappier than Panther (this
all on an aging G4/400) and the new features, many of which I still
have to explore are great - the searching is just brilliant and on
the dashboard the weather widget even knows about Albany, WA. My
only criticism of Mail is that it is not quite as clever as doing a
Save as Draft automatically when you go off in the middle of a letter.
Finally, my thanks, as a regional member of WAMUG, to all those who
made the effort to put the meeting up as a streaming video, after all
these years it was great to "attend" my first meeting and view it
with QT7Pro! Now I have some faces to go with some well known
names. My only criticism was that the sound level was a bit low and
not always easy to follow.
I am a happy Tiger chappie!
Severin Crisp
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Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP
15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia.
Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950)
email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web pages http://www.JennyCrisp.com.au
& http://members.westnet.com.au/Crisp
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