Brian1405241474 0 Report post Posted April 12, 2005 Mac users have reason to rejoice! Apple today announced that Mac OS X 10.4 (code named Tiger) will be available on April 29, 2005 at 6:00 PM. It has a lot of new features, possbily the best of which is the amazing search of Spotlight. But is has many other features such as Dashboard, Parental Controls, Automator, and more. All the new features can be seen at Apple.com/MacOSX. This is very big! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chiiyo 0 Report post Posted April 13, 2005 Argh you announced it here first! I was going to announce it! Unfortunately I spent the time in between your post and this one studying for exams and reading the 500+ posts on the macrumors website about the release of Tiger. Is anyone going to get it? I'm a student and the education discount on this baby is SCHWEET! Was S$249. Educational discount brings it down to S$149.10. Gorgeous. They even have this bundle thing where they sell Tiger, iLife '05 and iWorks '05 at a discount if you buy them all at once, over here it's S$488, although if you're a student using the educational discounts for all three software would get you an even lower price. Woot! If you're too amazed by the pure plethora of information on the official Apple website on Tiger (they updated and it took me three whole hours to read through it and I didn't even read every single thing!), check out the upgrade page, it gives a quick run-down of most, if not all, of the changes made since Panther and Jaguar. Just going down that list got me so excited. I mean, Grapher? A graphing calculator in my laptop? That just saved me 100 bucks (that's what a real graphing calculator would cost for me). Dictionary and Thesaurus inbuilt? VPN on demand is going to be really useful for me, since my school server switched over to using VPN. Some more new firewall measures, new inbuilt PDF support (read and write using Preview 3!!), Safari's supposed to work a lot faster now, just all the bells and whistles is getting me drooling. And I'm not even talking about Dashboard, Spotlight, Automator and the like, which are the big features. Can't wait to get it, pre-ordering it as soon as I get my hands on a credit card... Anyone else share my enthusiasm for this baby?? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Brian1405241474 0 Report post Posted April 14, 2005 Sorry, I beat you to the post... Anyway, I'm with you, I'm very excited! I added a count down on my home page and have several topics about it at my forums and I even created an image gallery of pictures of Tiger. Thanks for mentioning all those features, I hadn't heard about some of the minor ones (like Preview 3). A friend of mine who is an Apple developer and posts at my forums has had Tiger since the first public beta and loves it. But my old Clamshell iBook G3 is so slow and doesn't have a DVD drive, so I'll likely buy a new iBook before I get Tiger. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chiiyo 0 Report post Posted April 14, 2005 This board isn't all that mac-centric, but you should check out the macrumors forums. They have an entire subforum for Tiger, and we have like around 50 people who had their hands on a developer copy of Tiger from last year's WWDC, and they've been posting up stuff ever since. Which is why by now stuff like Dashboard and Spotlight seems old to me. Funny moment there, I forgot that multi-person video chatting was only in the new iChat, because I watched it on the WWDC video a year back, and when I read the new iChat page, I was like, yeah but this isn't new? Took me a while before I realised it WAS a new feature for Tiger. Was already so geared up for Tiger and so used to seeing it everywhere that I forgot it was a new feature! *amused* Yeah, I really liked the upgrade page, because there are lots of small things that matter to only a few people (like I REALLY REALLY wanted slideshows on Finder) that the Apple copy writers probably wouldn't write about much, and basically going down the list got me all excited for Tiger all over again. I'm talking euphoria, similar to what I felt when Tiger was first talked about on the boards. Get a new iBook! But watch out, they say the entire hardware line might be getting a small upgrade (maybe speed bumps and lower prices) before Tiger is released, except maybe for the Powerbook line. So you should probably get the iBook and get Tiger free! *bounces* Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MajesticTreeFrog 0 Report post Posted April 14, 2005 All I have to say is, YAY! I have been waiting for this for a while. I can't wait to install it on my ibook. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Soleq 0 Report post Posted April 15, 2005 As a longtime user of Mac OS X (since DP4), I've seen features been add that make this a wonderful operating system. I originally had my mixed feelings towards Dashboard, primarily because of Arlo Rose's Konfabulator, but then I remembered what Apple did to Cassidy & Green's SoundJam (the father of iTunes) and relinquished to the fact that Apple does indeed make things better. The upgrade itself is a giant leap towards the future, so no doubt I'll be upgrading. This is actually the first version of OSX where I haven't been receiving the developer releases, so I guess I'll just have to go buy a new Powerbook to avoid paying the upgrade fee. Aww shucks!Anyway, since the educational discount was mentioned, I should let you in on this little tidbit: if you're a student (high school or college), do yourself a favor and enroll in the Apple ACD Student Developer program. For $99 per year, you receive monthly mailings of Apple developer software. Best of all, every three months (I believe) they send you the latest operating system. Hence, I was able to get /every/ release of Mac OS X before it hit the stores, essentially for free. Since I'm no longer in ACD, no more mailings. Look at it this way: pay $149 for the upgrade, or pay $50 less for the upgrade AND monthly mailings. Hmm...tough choice... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jguy101 0 Report post Posted April 15, 2005 Yeah, I'm excited...but I'm probably not gonna get it. However, my friend is probably gonna get his Grandfather's 5-license pack once he's put it on his Macs.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chiiyo 0 Report post Posted April 15, 2005 Jguy101: Why aren't you getting it? Any particular reason? Soleq: I went to check out the ADC Student thing. Whilst I'm happy to announce my country does have it, the terms seem to have changed? According to the FAQ, student ADC programs don't get pre-release software? And there's no mention of the 3-monthly software packages? Although ADC looks cool, I'm really not programmer material, so not much help I give to Apple... Anyway the $149 was in Singapore dollars... US$99 is around that price anyways. *wink* If I'm not wrong the educational price for Tiger is around US$79 only? Really a sweet deal if you think about it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Brian1405241474 0 Report post Posted April 17, 2005 Get a new iBook! But watch out, they say the entire hardware line might be getting a small upgrade (maybe speed bumps and lower prices) before Tiger is released, except maybe for the Powerbook line. So you should probably get the iBook and get Tiger free!Yeah, that was my plan, get a new iBook, plus free Tiger and iLife 05. Which is also looking really good. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Luna Dragon 0 Report post Posted April 22, 2005 That's basically my plan - get a new Mac (preferably a new iMac or Powerbook) to get Tiger. Panther doesn't work as well as it should on my G3 iMac (which is about 4 years old), and I reformatted the hard drive recently just to get more space. I really want Tiger for the little tools in Dashboard... not necessarily the weather tool, but the iTunes widget looks cool!! I doubt I'd use GarageBand much except to fiddle around, so I probably won't be using the iLife suite to its full potential LOL Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
marijnnn 0 Report post Posted April 22, 2005 friend of mine already has the gold model! for the ones looking for it: 425 is the last beta, 428 = gm!he tested it and tells me that it runs faster & lighter! what a difference with window, where every new os means you almost have to buy a new computer to run it, especially the upcoming longhorn, if we can believe the rumors.anyway, can't wait to lay my hands on the tiger! very promising Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
