Tiger

[ksmith]

Welp, I threw caution to the winds and installed Tiger on the iMac. Even made the mistake of hitting regular Install instead of Archive and Install. Didn't back up a few things I should have backed up. Yes, campers, I was really asking for it.

Fingers crossed, no issues. I noticed the difference in speed right away. Dashboard is KEWL. The Safari RSS feeds are neat for someone not used to getting them--I read one review of Tiger where someone complained about the layout of the headlines.

Spotlight is a Good Thing, and I want to beam my thanks to whoever thought it up.

Mail looks neater.

Still poking around the new digs, but so far I like what I see.

Comments

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Ah -- and on doublechecking that the iMac does indeed have two expansion slots, it says that the older G3 models (dunno which one you have) can only be upgraded to 384 MB, which means all you need is a 128MB memory stick if you indeed have an older G3. Not as nice as 512MB of memory, but it'll make the beastie run faster with Tiger.

My problem's with my G4 iBook.

My G5 iMac has 512 MB memory, but I think it has other turbocharging capabilities that enable it to accommodate larger programs and run so quickly.

My cold boot of the iBook this morning went well, and quickly. My biggest concern is that I interrupted something important when I turned it off in the middle of booting up. Maybe it fixed itself. Or maybe it's saving it up for later...

[daveamongus.livejournal.com]

I need to upgrade my Mini. tappu ordered it with only 256MB or RAM, and I would really love half a Gig or more.

Tiger might have to wait until after that, but I'm loving everything I hear about it.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I like Spotlight, which lets you search all your files, emails, etc for terms/words. One of my biggest knocks against the Mac file structure was that you couldn't find things easily.

There are new screensavers and desktops as well. One neat thing in this section is the iTunes group, which makes screensavers of all the album cover artwork for the music you've downloaded.

I will say that by iMac has been running on the loud side since I installed Tiger, but maybe it's just one of those things.