Mac OS 10.4 "Tiger" on april 29th!

Its here! The new OS for the mac conitaing features such as spotlight and dashboard is arriving on the 29th! I've been waiting for this

http://www.apple.com//

[Derek]

Nice!

Can't wait to give it a go.

[punky]

Seems a lot of money for an ungrade which you can do yourself with a few freeware apps. You shouldn't have to pay full price if you are upgrading from Panther, surely...

[Lew]

An upgrade you can do yourself with a few freeware apps? You're having a laugh.

Originally Posted by punky

Seems a lot of money for an ungrade which you can do yourself with a few freeware apps. You shouldn't have to pay full price if you are upgrading from Panther, surely...

Granted dashboard is avaible but is much better when intergrated into the OS. The only other one is slow and you need to open it up as an extra application. spotlight is much better than anything on the market and supports 'smart' folders! Think of how itunes smart folders work and put that into the whole OS!

You can search anything to do with a contact on your address boook, images, videos, documents, emails, etc etc. BY name, anything! Then set up a folder that will automatically update. I.E Set up a folder for a client. Then every email then send you, any work you do, any notes, meetings, documents will automatically go into that folder, nroken up into sections based on file type or headers you choose!

Theres then a lot of under the hood improvements as well. H.264 is the new video codec used in HD-DVD and so on. (mpeg 4). It has bulit-in support for that. Core image and so forth have changed the way you mac will handle images/video etc etc putting more work on the graphic card than the processor making your mac much faster. People have tested it on a powerbook and had serveal high quality videos running at once with no slow down. This is due to H.264 (Higher quality at a lower file size!) and core image and many of the other stuff. http://www.apple.com/macosx/overview...sandmedia.html

Apple tell you everything new on each section, so you can really see the improvements. I am happy with the new video/graphic system. Spotlight and dashboard. Safari 2.0 (faster than firefox in tests). Automator (basically a massive macro maker across the entire system. Make your computer follow tasks you set up and choose a time to do it, do it on start up, whenever!

[Lew]

I've ordered mine, btw

Originally Posted by Lew

An upgrade you can do yourself with a few freeware apps? You're having a laugh.

You cannot do that with freeware upgrades. Look at the features of the OS. All the improvements, spotlight, smart folders, H.264, Core image, Core audio, etc etc
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Originally Posted by Lew

I've ordered mine, btw

me too only £59 with the nus discount.

[Derek]

Originally Posted by Damien

me too only £59 with the nus discount.

B****y students with their cheap beer and cheap software

[Lew]

I may have to change the roles of my 2 Macs once 10.4 arrives. The creaky old Y2K PowerBook (G3/500, 384MB, Rage 128 8MB) can take over as the iTunes & print server and the iBook (G3/900,384MB, Radeon 32MB) can become my main machine. I think it should run 10.4 a bit betterââ‚Ã⠀šÃ‚¬Ãƒâ€šÃ‚¦

Windows users should also take note! Quicktime 7 will be released along with this OS

Here are all the new fetaures:

http://www.apple.com/macosx/newfeatu...wfeatures.html

[punky]

That makes it a bit more alluring than this page which lists "Safari RSS reader" (people actually use Safari?) as a "top new feature", and a widget to tell you what the weather is outside your window. Some of those features look quite good, although some of the others consist of nothing more than adding a key-shortcut, I wouldn't call that a new feature.

I still think it is a bit of a cheek charging the same for an upgrade and a full version. That just about sums Jobs up though. Some of those features are nice, but I am not upgrading yet, not at that price.

mac always just release one OS, for new and old users. Also safari has a number of improvements. Also its dashboard, not just one widget. Spotlight and smart folders will be useful as will automator.

Theres are some big upgrades under the hoood core audio, core image, h.264, the openGL and quarz extreme improvements and so on

[Lew]

Originally Posted by punky

people actually use Safari

Yes.

I still think it is a bit of a cheek charging the same for an upgrade and a full version.

Seeing as how you can't buy a Mac without an OS, every version is an upgrade from whatever version of Mac OS you have on your computer.

[Chris W]

For those who are students... it is *much* cheaper to buy from the education store