Switching accomplished. The Tiger’s running.

Wed, May 18th, 2005 at 7:39 | Posted in Apple

My iBook is running on Mac OS X 10.4 'Tiger' Yesterday I got my 10.4 Upgrade DVD and today I’m already using ‘Tiger’.

Since there lots of reviews out there I just want to mention a few things:

  • Spotlight is pretty cool, while not as fast as LaunchBar on my G3 iBook 800 with 640 MB RAM. I think I’ll use Spotlight, when Launchbar comes to its limits. Ex. searching for metadata within your digital-photo-collection
  • Safari 2: Incredible speed improvement (more interested? take a look at the Browser speed comparisons) Safari2 recognizes RSS-Feed and offers one-click-access to newsfeeds.
  • Mail, looks much more elegant now. The interface has been cleaned up and the drawer is not inside the mainwindow.
  • System performance is nearly the same, maybe a bit faster but not slower. Not like updating from Windows 98 to XP

Summary: Well done - Get a copy!

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