Tiger is shipping!

Hugh_C

Dear Hugh Chaloner,

We are pleased to send you this shipment notification regarding your Apple Store order. Your order has been dispatched and will be delivered to your shipping address. Please keep this email as it contains your reference number Wxxxxxxxx and shipping/delivery number. Should you have any queries please quote these reference numbers.

Your web order reference number is: Wxxxxxxxx
Your shipping reference number is: xxxxxxxxxx

The expected delivery time for your order is 2 - 3 days.
Please note that these are business days and that this is an estimated lead-time only.

Hopefully before Friday evening...

Peteer

Hope you get it before the week-end! Am thinking of popping into O2 or 3G on Friday to secure a copy.

Enjoy!

Peter

SouperComputer

am i the only person who is wondering what the 129 euro is for, except the potential of extra bugs and some gimmicks?

Peteer

The gimmicks I suppose!

What else are you expecting?

But seriously there are a lot of improvements listed and It should make the over all user experience even greater, it is a major upgrade. I for one can just about justify the outlay. Have been offered copy's from others but am happy to pay what I feel is a fair price for the enhancements expected. If you consider it like shareware and there were 13 apps, gimmicks or whatever that would register for a tenner each then I suppose it is value. Now if the same upgrade was at the €250+ mark I probably would think harder about my spend and even consider working with a copy, but for now I can justify the spend. I want the benefits and I can weigh up the value to me of same. If you don't want the bugs, and gimmicks save your money, but don't ask me for a copy, lol.

Regards,
Peter

Hugh_C

SouperComputer wrote:

am i the only person who is wondering what the 129 euro is for, except the potential of extra bugs and some gimmicks?

The 120 euro is for the R&D that went into developing it, to keep the shareholders happy & the real cost of improving the OS.

Personally, I wouldn't consider Spotlight a gimmick. It'll save me a lot of time in the Terminal.

SouperComputer

ill probably wait 2 months at least before I reccomend it to clients, Ill have to get it anyway, but it will be going on another partiton!

I was reading on lowendmac.com last night that a retailer in the US shipped the disks too soon and some people have received theirs already.

Bugs include, onboard bluetooth NW, fail to come out of suspend.

i know nothing can be perfect, but in fairness, there is a limited hardware range for apple to work with!

Hugh_C

SouperComputer wrote:

Bugs include, onboard bluetooth NW, fail to come out of suspend.

I have a 3rd party bluetooth dongle yoke - it'll be interesting to see of it works - along with a 3rd party PC wireless network card in an old machine. I'd be surprised if it all works immediately. Kernel panics here we come!

I've gotta say that I find all that pioneering stuff great fun - I don't mind a few crashes / hangs etc, I just want to play! I'll be putting it on a test machine before I put it on my production machine. As soon as all the software I use in the prodcution environment has been Tiger-approved, I'll make the switch - probably 10.4.1.

I've been thinking about how to install - I think I'll go down the Erase & Install route because I want as clean an install as possible, and my current (test machine) installation of 10.3.9 is completely b0rked due to constant tinkering (by me) and some Java anomalies. Also, the amount of free/shareware that I try and then discard means there's a million unused prefs kicking around.

I'm looking forward to it...

uberwolf

I'll be 10.4.2 I'd say.

Most of the enhancements do seem to be toys - which I like, but don't want to deal with all the new OS issues enough to bother with Tiger just yet.

gutta

uberwolf wrote:

I'll be 10.4.2 I'd say.

uberchicken I'd say.

SouperComputer

I've gotta say that I find all that pioneering stuff great fun - I don't mind a few crashes / hangs etc,

ahhh, you've hit the nail on the head there. One of the reasons I use mac is so that I dont mess about with it! Ive enough PC's for that.

kevmac

Mine's out in the TNT van.

Can't see why anyone doesn't see the worth in Apple's OS - don't forget that you get nine more upgrades during the next 18 months or so right up to 10.4.9.

For the amount of work that Apple puts into making the best OS on the planet €129 is peanuts.

Can't wait to get home and load up the Widgets

shutterclick

mine arrived this afternoon. installed it right away.

first impressions : spotlight is brilliant. lightning fast.
dashboard is cool (maybe more toy than anything. some of the widgets are quite useful though.) and the rss screensaver is like the future we were promised

i haven't encountered any problems yet. wireless networking, windows filesharing and bluetooth are all working as before.

Shabadu

Do you feel you got your money's worth?

shutterclick

considering what else €120 will get you (or €90 in my case as i bought through the educational store) yes, i do think it was worth it.
of course i haven't really tested it yet, but so far, so good.
i found searching in panther to be one of the weakest parts. spotlight alone almost makes it worth it.
as someone above mentioned, my €90 gets me right up to 10.4.9. i think that is good value for money.

paulcr

I'm interested in knowing what respondants are using their mac and OS upgrade for. I've considered upgrading although I have my reservations. Plus if I have to do a complete install (ie wiping out the drive) I don't know if its worth the trouble.

Monty Cantsin

I use my mac for Multimedia development (Director & web), and all the usual day to day stuff.

There's nothing I absolutely need in Tiger, but I got it anyway (It arrived yesterday). Spotlight is fantastic. Really fast and very useful. Very well implemented.

Most important for me, AirPort reception is much improved on my 12" PowerBook. I have been getting 2-3 bars upstairs in my house all along. I'm getting a full 4 the whole time now.

Dashboard is very cool too. For me, the Currency Conversion and Dictionary widgets are more than just toys - they're productive tools that I now have access to at the sweep of a mouse, without having to launch my browser and pull up an internet site. The Dictionary/Thesaurus (Oxford American Dictionary) is in the Applications folder (as well as being a widget), and does not need to be connected to the internet to work, which is brilliant. On a side note, if you're using the Weather widget in Ireland, make sure to flip it over and append ", Ireland" to the name of your town. Dublin was set by default when I first launched it, but it turned our to be Dublin in California. Entering "Dublin" (for example) and hitting return will give you a list of "Dublins" to choose from.

I haven't looked a Automater yet.

Safari is definitely snappier, and the new RSS function is handy to have.
You can now add any photo on a web page to your iPhoto library through the contextual menu (right/control click) in Safari.

There's plenty of other tweaks and fixes that all add up to making it a very worthwhile upgrade (especially for the Education price).

You should not need to do an erase and install to upgrade. Do an archive and install, and then transfer over anything that you need from your old system folder. So far, systemwide fonts and a few shareware applications (like SideTrack) are the only things I've had to fetch from the old SF. Do back up as much as you can before the install though, just in case. I backed up the whole PowerBook hard disk to an external drive just before updating.

There's post over a AppleNova detailing the pros and cos of each upgrade option.

The only bug I've found so far is that Mail 2 didn't automatically import the emails in the inbox for one of my accounts, so I was left with a list of messages, but no actual content in the emails. I've seen a couple of other people mention this or a few forums as well. I manually imported the account in question from my backup, and all is well again. Trashing mail.plist is another possible solution. I'll be sending a bug report to Apple as soon as they add 10.4 to their feedback page

All in all, a great upgrade.

Shabadu

Well I'm sold! /Off to the educational store.