Tiger Preview: Slow?

[HyperLiteG4]

Is it just me on my computer or is the WWDC preview of Tiger really slow? I installed the preview on a 867 G4 and it is so slow it's unbelievable.

Does anyone else have Tiger? How is it for you? I'm thinking about installing it on my PowerBook 1.25, but that is the computer I use for all my work, so I'm a little reluctant about installing it there....Is it really that buggy? Let me know your input...

[fryke]

I only installed it on an external FW drive, but speed seemed more or less the same as with Panther (which is good). I certainly didn't see a decrease in speed.

However: You _should_ keep in mind that Apple probably has lots of debug code in this build - and it's also still a bit early to say anything about Tiger's speed. Right now I'd concentrate on testing the applications you develop against the new codebase.

[spitty27]

did anyone find automator or "funhouse" in the xcode install with the 8A162 release? is it just me or was it not included. (i think steve showed a different build because [this has been mentioned before] the menubar still has the lines in 8A162 and the apple looks the same as panther...)

[kendall]

its very fast on my 1ghz powerbook

apps like safari and ical launch faster even.
new stuff like dashboard and spotlight are fast and smooth as well.
not very buggy but not very much different than panther either. i think lots will change in the course of a year building up to its release.

[metfoo]

i have had lots of bugs, like only widgets and the search bar load on boot (missing 3/4 of the top menu), pressing shift and f11 while in the dashboard causes jumping, lots of app crashes, random freezes, and general instability. I havent played with it too much becuase of my problems.

the water ripples feature is cool, but seems kinda grainy on my G5.

[jonmichael23]

I have run into few and little problems......but I don't find Tiger that much more impressive at this point of its development. I had a weird log out incident and safari unexpectedly quit. And it is build 8A162. The only difference between it and panther are : Safari 2.0 with RSS feeds (which displays a lot of pages incorrectly for me), Pipeline (automater has slightly different interface, and different icon), Spotlights integrated in the menu bar and throughout the apps steve demo'ed, iChat AV says version 3.0 but it seems the same and I don't think it has the new conferencing features, Sherlock didn't have anything on it (it was missing everything on top) and is rendered useless, Quicktime seems the same besides its new icon and I think the time bar is a different color? and I don't think H.264 is present, I could be wrong though. I haven't installed xcode so I'm not sure about core image and core video. Metfoo - you have the ripple effect when opening widgets (or Gadgets whatever) ? I do not, just when you close them it makes an animation effect, do you have to turn it on somehow, or install xcode to get the ripple effect?

[Go3iverson]

So what is and isn't covered under NDA for Tiger?

For the Automator question, use spotlight to look for pipeline...let me know what you find...

[kendall]

you might need one of the more recent videocards to see every special effect Tiger has to offer (radeon 9600, geforce 5200).