Would you say Tiger is recommended for the average Home user?

Convert · #1 February 27th, 2005, 10:07 AM

Hey there,

I am a basic home user, and there are some features I'd love, that are on Tiger, like Spotlight. However, they aren't necessary.

Anyhow, would you recommend Tiger to me? I am using Panther. Is it worth buying Tiger, for a student?

Thanks

**fryke** · #2 February 27th, 2005, 10:39 AM

It of course depends. I don't see a "need", really. Panther's a good operating system. But a few of the features will just be so nice to have that you won't want to miss out on them. You've mentioned Spotlight, which I still consider the single most important Tiger feature. It'll simply enable you to finally find what you want very, very quickly. Sure, you can use Panther's search in the Finder, but it won't be as fast and it won't be as thorough.

There are other things. Automator, for example. Not sure whether you're a candidate for it, but it'll certainly help ease a lot of things for a lot of users.

Dashboard will be fun - and hopefully also useful (depends on the widgets devs, of course...).

Convert · #3 February 27th, 2005, 12:46 PM

Yeah, I was using Konfab, I found it OK... a bit dragging though, as DB is a OS built feature maybe it won't be so draining. Automator seems very cool, I just watched the short movie, it looks very good. I think this would be helpful, I have been interested in Apple Script, but I know nothing about that kinda stuff. Automater isvery appealing. I will look at the other features.

Thanks!

Ceroc Addict · #4 February 27th, 2005, 05:58 PM

Also multi party video/audio chat (iChat AV) is only available in Tiger, which should make a huge difference to the overall experience.

Kap

blue&whiteman · #5 February 27th, 2005, 08:26 PM

i'm a semi-pro mac user and see no need to move to tiger. I use quicksilver and it does so much more than spotlight can. tiger also crawls compared to panther performance wise. to be totally honest many of the tiger features seem to be fluff. just my opinion..

mi5moav · #6 February 27th, 2005, 09:09 PM

Well if you like quicksilver, you may have to upgrade, which I use every now and then though I prefer my own apple scripts. Alci say's he may only release the final for 10.4. Sherlock vs Watson now QS vs SL.

long live velveta!!!

**fryke** · #7 February 27th, 2005, 09:38 PM

Erh... No. QuickSilver quite definitely will rather be an addition to Spotlight than a competitor, actually...

texanpenguin · #8 February 27th, 2005, 11:21 PM

Plus there's the fact that Apple will only support Panther for a little while after the release of Tiger.

Application developers too.

It's always worth an upgrade once you can afford it. I'd probably wait until 10.4.3 or so before purchasing so that you know the teething problems have been ironed out. But as a student, it's really cheap enough that it should be considered an essential.

Plus it'll make your computer run faster (for some things; code optimisation is the bomb)