Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Tour
His Steveness only had a little time to demo a few of new features of Tiger during the keynote, and it is still
months away from being released. What is a good Mac user to do?
Take the newly unveiled tour of Tiger, of course! Using Quicktime technology Apple has put together a tour that
highlights the following features of Tiger:
- Spotlight - System wide search done correctly
- Dashboard - Widgets for everyone
- Safari RSS - another way to keep up with TUAW.com
- Mail - A new interface, and smart mailboxes
- iChat AV - video conferencing for the rest of us
- Automator - Make your Mac roll over
- VoiceOver - You talk, your Mac listens
- Parental Control - Keep the kids from being naughty
- .Mac Sync - .Mac integrated fully with the OS? You’re soaking in it
- Quicktime 7 - You won’t find H.264 on the periodic table
Gaze upon the future of the Mac operating system and weep with joy. Things are getting interesting, folks.
Is it just me, or should Apple consider renaming Tiger the X-Men? Mac OS X 10.4 X-Men, it has a nice ring to it, but I
bet there would be copyright issues.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Thomas said 4:16PM on 6-16-2005
Does anybody know what happens when I buy an apple today? Do I get an option to upgrade once the new system is delivered?
regards,
Thomas
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Juan de Dios Santander Vela said 4:16PM on 6-16-2005
Thomas, normally you can upgrade for free once a new operating system has been announced (about one month before release), but the timeframe for Tiger is still a fuzzy "first half 2005", which means sometime before June 30th.
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Juan de Dios Santander Vela said 4:16PM on 6-16-2005
As for X-Men, I guess those are Mac OS X core team ;-)
Anyway, now that I've been looking to the NeXTstep 3.0 demo by Steve Jobs, I'm getting more and more suspicious of the "nextyness" of the UI development in Mac OS X. In normal Aqua windows, the dimples that signal moveable panels or sections do not remind you that much of NeXTstep, but once you see them on brushed metal windows...
And now, look at the center of that X...
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james hill said 4:16PM on 6-16-2005
Thomas, I would be very wary about buying a mac just before a new OS release, until Apple have confirmed when the cut off date for receiving a free OS upgrade is. I bought a powerbook 17 days before Panther was released and was sure that I would get an upgrade from Jaguar. It turned out that Apple had set the cut off for only 10 days before Panther's release. Needless to say that this information was not forthcoming from Apple until after I had bought my shiny new powerbook!! Me,Angry? you-betya!!
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