Tiger Upgrade Plans

Guess what? I was speaking to someone who works at our local Apple Store and he said that they are not expecting Tiger till June - July. Oh well...

I'll be pre-ordering it (with my student discount of course) directly from Telesales, so if history gives any indication I'll have it in my hands via FedEx at noon on release day. I can't wait!

I live rural, Central California; no Apple retailers withing 70 miles. Yes, I will order Tiger withing hours of its release. I manage 20 computers in my wife's business. As the IT guy I get to test the new releases on my 15" AlBook as they become available. With two kids in school and 6 computers at home (Pizmo & Cube - G5 iMac) I get to vette each new patch and every major OS realease FULLY before doing business installs. The one exception is my wife's TiBook which comes home every day. Because this is for business and she gets frustrated with ANY problems I upgrade it AFTER most other business installs. I usually upgrade withing 24 hours of each release. The last (10.3.8) was the first one to nail me with the iShock bug disk full error. It broke two home computers, but none of the others. I was able to recover quickly (3 hours) and kill the beast. I cannot wait to play with Tiger. And yes, I do a full CarbonCopy backup on the first system, mine!!!

I'm in the ADC Program (Apple Developer) and I have a copy of Tiger that I keep updating as it is seeded. I'll have to say (I can't really say anything else) that it's going to be very mature on first release, probably more so than Panther, because even though it's many many new features, at the core it's very similar to OS X 10.3, so things like Application and Hardware compatibility should be solid. Jaguar to Panther was a painless upgrade (short of Filevault and Firewire bugs), but I'll go out on a limb and say that the Tiger upgrade should be smooth sailing for most who have decent hardware and enough RAM. I'll be upgrading my primary laptop and G5 as soon as it hits the shelves! Can't wait!

I look for the next update in video conferencing; we will do a family upgrade for four Macs and will then be looking for purchases of iSight -- hope they have been hardware updated (wide angle lens). I know Tiger will have the new stuff, but will the camera match it?

Apple Rocks!

Apple Rocks!

"Does apple allow recent purchases of its computers to upgrade for a cheap price or will I have to pay the full whack" for the last release they had an "up to date" offer for anyone that had bought a new apple within a month (or maybe two). I was outside that range by a few weeks, but I filled out the web form and they sent it to me anyway. It was something like $20. "I am new to the world of Apple. I have had my Dual G5 PowerMac for about 8 months now. How does it work when a new Apple OS comes out? Will I have the option of Upgrade or Full Version? Will it be better to do a clean install?" There is only a "upgrade price" since everyone is assumed to have gotten a version of the OS with their hardware. Recent hardware buyers have in the past gotten a bigger discount (and may for this release too), but I don't think "8 months" will fall into that catagory. In the least release the 3 install choices were "Upgrade", "Erase and install", and "Archive and install". I realy like the "Archive and install" choice. It makes a copy of everything (or at least everything that has changed, I forget exactly what it does), and moves that off to the side, and does a fresh install. It gives you a "fresh new install" when it is done, but with all the old stuff in a directory that you can grab bits out of if you find you need them, or you can trash in a month of six when you need the disk space. (and yes, it is still a good idea to do a backup first...and yes archive and install uses a lot more disk space)

Does apple allow recent purchases of its computers to upgrade for a cheap price or will I have to pay the full whack! I've ordered a mac mini which I should have in a couple of weeks.

I'm looking forward to tabbed iChat and 3-way AV. I can't wait to play around with H.264. Maybe I can get rid of Newsfire with Safari RSS. And Automator looks like it'll rock! The mail eye-candy doesn't hurt either =)