Customer Reviews

Apple Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.6 (Mac DVD) [OLD VERSION]

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1 star:		(4)

 

 

I'm a convert from the Redmond tribe, but the conversion has been painless and actually quite enjoyable. Like many, I use Windows machines on the job, but come home to an iMac at the end of the day.

Mac OS X Tiger goes about its business with a quiet composure that barely hints at all the magic happening behind the Aqua user interface. The blocky Apple System font has been replaced with eye-pleasing Lucida Grande Sans Serif. Window control buttons use color to convey their meaning: Red for close, yellow for minimize, and green for zoom (similar to Windows maximize).

In place of the Windows Start Menu and Taskbar, OS X Tiger provides the Dock, a zoom-able home for frequently used applications. Drag an icon from the Application folder to the Dock, and then click it to open it. A small triangle appears below each active application. You can right-click a Dock icon for a list of application windows or select Quit and shut down all of the windows at once, leaving the icon in the Dock for the next time you need it. And yes, I said "right-click," one of the ways OS X Tiger makes Windows users feel right at home.

For the first hour or so of operation, OS X might seem a bit sluggish, especially if you've dumped a folder full of files on your Mac. It just means Spotlight is at work indexing the hard drive, all the way down to the name "Hephaestus" in that fantasy novel you originally wrote in Microsoft Word for Windows on your old PC. If you can't remember where you saved a document or its filename, just type a word that appears within it and Spotlight will display every file containing your search term. Change the dragon's name from "Hephaestus" to "Fafnir" and Spotlight knows about it by the time you've saved it.

Other helpful technologies include the Dashboard. Click the Dashboard icon in the Dock and an assortment of mini-applications called widgets zoom into view. You can check the current temperature and see a 7-day forecast on AccuWeather's widget. Add up a quick list of numbers with the calculator widget. You can even add widgets to track your investments. When you're finished, the widgets disappear and your desktop is exactly as you left it.

If your Mac has a dedicated video card with a programmable graphics processor, Quartz Extreme and Core Image take over the graphics-intensive tasks and use gaming-grade technology for everyday effects like resizing, scrolling and moving windows. The result is faster, rock-solid performance. Listen to your MP3 collection in iTunes while Mail downloads messages as you organize and enhance pictures from your trip to Lake Tahoe in iPhoto. OS X Tiger keeps things moving along without audible or visible stutters. Based on UNIX, Tiger recovers from rare application freeze-ups without a reboot, leaving everything else intact.

If all that hard work has left your desktop a shambles of open applications, Expose' will shrink every open application until they all fit on the screen. Mouse over each shrunken app and its name appears in big type. Click on the one you want and it zooms to screen size. You can also see only the windows of a single application. Expose' will even push everything aside to let you click on something on the desktop.

For home and small business users, Mac OS X provides greater safety from the perils of a connected life. OS X Tiger turns up its nose at ActiveX and other potentially troublesome Windows technologies. Macintosh viruses are rare, so if you don't open suspicious files and unsolicited email attachments, you can get along without anti-virus software. It's also more difficult for a website to plant adware and spyware on your Mac. OS X Tiger is smart enough to know when you're connected to the Internet through a router and shuts off both its software firewall and file sharing. You can enable only those services you need while optimizing system performance.

If you use your Mac every day (and who doesn't?), Apple recommends that you put it to sleep instead of shutting down when you're finished. Even a Tiger needs some sleep to keep at its best. Shut down your Mac only if you're going to move it or if you're going on vacation.

The upgrade went smoothly and Tiger 10.4.6 appears to be as stable as 10.3.9

I upgraded OSX 10.3.9 without a hitch....well I did have to rework a few items (drivers for my 2496 sound card and a few apps.,etc...) to function however it wasn't that bad. After upgrading I can now use my wireless network printer. (Yuppie!) This OS kind of looks the same as 10.3.9 but it has many new features I like and use. I highly recommend it.

I mainly use my computer for Music (Digital Performer 4.6) and home video projects (Finalcut Pro 4.5HD) I also use it for surfing the Internet, Design and Word documents among many other things. My Mac is and has been the main item of my home recording studio. (G4 800 Quicksilver) I am very happy so far with this upgrade and recommend it to all G4 users waiting.

Hope this helps,

mvh : )

Very easy to install. Watch for print drivers that will need updating. So far system has been running fine.

Do I really need to review this? It is by FAR the best OS out there (until October when the new one comes out!).
LIttle to no crashes or problems. Easy for beginners on a computer. Won't scare away the timid. Makes setting up your computer a breeze!

I installed it on my mac in minutes. It even recognized my external keyboard on a USB extender on the first try. Dashboard is fun and the other updates are worth the price.

First off, I gave it 4 stars because for windows users- 5 star product, but for mac users- 3 stars

windows users- if you're still using windows, you are missing out on no more troubleshooting problems, great user interface and next gen features like spotlight, dashboard and of course the great iLife. Tiger is about two times better than vista ultimate, and combining that with the expensive price, tiger is 8 times better. Even though vista copies many of the features in tiger, they are far from being as productive and easy-to-use as tiger's (not to mention tons of bugs and problems). SO GET A MAC AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!!!

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OS X is solid, stabe, and easy to use. But don't think it's not powerful--with the Unix core you can get as far under the hood as you care to learn about.

I always dread the updates on my computer, because it's Murphy's Law for me. Something always goes wrong. However, I was very pleased with Tiger. I followed the instructions and installed it without a hitch. I'm thrilled with the new "goodies", too. I like Dashboard that allows me to check up on the weather, time, and other options at the click of a button. I use the dictionary and calculator often, because they are so easy to access. Mac did a nice job on Tiger 10.4.6.

Even a generation or two down, it's functioning great on my older G5.
I updated as far as possible for my safari upgrade to still keep Classic running, and all worked like a charm.
Love it when products don't disappoint! Seems to run a BIT hotter, tho.