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tiger installedJust finished installing.  I threw caution to the wind and did a simple update without any preparation whatsoever. 

For the most part, it worked nicely.  I started the installation at 2:15 EST.  At 2:20, after scanning to make sure the installation DVD was okay, the Core Installation began.  By 2:58, the installation was done and optimizing began.  The Powerbook rebooted at 2:59:59 EST.  At 3:02 EST, the computer had booted and I was presented with a blue screen and my mouse worked, but nothing else.  I was panicked for a few minutes, but I kept telling myself, "Be cool. Be patient.  Be cool."

At 3:04 EST, the Desktop came up and the setup and registration screens launched.  Whew!

First impressions (to be followed with more details later): it looks nice. Something is different about the fonts.  I've already received the spinning beach ball of death a few times. I haven't been able to test much yet, as Mail.app took quite some time to import my 14,132 messages, and every other time I go to use Spotlight I am met with a notice that it is indexing my Powerbook. 

So, it works, it looks nice, and I'm still excited; however, if you were expecting Tiger to be the virtual nirvana of operating systems, be ready to be slightly disappointed: it's not quite perfection.
 

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Pedro

I wanted to do a clean install but wasn't given the option. Is this because I'm running Tiger on my poor little 800MHz iBook (384 Mb Ram)? Other wise fine and I love the RSS sceen saver (using TUAW, of course).

May 02 2005 at 10:16 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chris Mcdowell

I installed on my G5 and during the disk verification it told me the disk was unable to be verified and if I wanted to continue anyways or cancel. I continued anyways and it installed fine. I put the dame disk in my powerbook and I got the same warning about the disk. I figured it worked in my G5 ill push on forward with the G4. I got an error about halfway through that the installation failed and now my G4 is dead. I reformatted the drive and called apple and am waiting for a new hopefully good DVD disk. So if it asks you if you want to continue anyways say no call apple get a new disk. G4's dont read as well as G5's I guess when it comes to errors on the disk. Lost some files lesson is to always backup.

May 01 2005 at 9:30 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
SM

Well, since my Mac Mini is only two month's old, and I have only some very basic applications on the machine I decided to just do the simple Upgrade. It took about 30 minutes, and Spotlight indexing only took about 15 minutes. Everything seems to be working perfectly. I like Dashboard (no ripples with the Mac Mini ATI 9200, of course) and Spotlight is cool, but may take some getting used to. Only problem I've discovered so far: Calculator won't quit when I use the Quit from the menu or ?-Q keystroke.

April 30 2005 at 1:58 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Carl Johnson

The change in the font could be related to your font smoothing options. 10.3 defaults to CRT level smoothing-- which looks terrible on a Powerbook. Maybe now they've fixed the default?

April 30 2005 at 12:04 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
liedra

I did an archive and install but where it put my home directory back, and was met with beachballs all over the place. So I reinstalled it doing an archive and install but this time not moving my home dir over (I'd backed it up to my firewire drive anyway). This time it was flawless. I've been selectively copying things back over from my backup and so far it's been great. I actually took the time to clean out a whole lot of junk as well, which was nice. So, I suspect that a bunch of my plists and things were corrupted over time from my Panther install. Anyway, things are running much quicker than they were under Panther and I haven't had the beachball once!

April 29 2005 at 10:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Guillermo

Hey, For those who got your copy of Tiger in the mail, can you guys tell me the exact weight of the whole package? I need to figure out how much it's gonna cost me to get it shipped from Miami to Venezuela.

April 29 2005 at 8:58 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Calihafan

I waited in line at the Tyson's Corner Store in MD (the line was like 200 people long, we got there early, we were 8th). Me, my friend, and his mom all scratched off and got 10% off, so we bought tiger, iLife '05, and Griffin iMic. The installation was painless and easy, unless you count waiting and waiting and waiting. He has a pretty good Mac, Dual 1.8 Ghz G5 tower with 1.25 GB of RAM. But it took so long! It installed like Finnish and all these languages. The whole time I was like "Don't screw up, don't lose data, its not my computer, I'd die if there was a failure." There haven't been any horror stories online, yet, so I don't know why I was worried. Its working fine though and I love it! It was a great $150. Calih

April 29 2005 at 8:38 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
motech

i wiped my machine and installed a fresh copy of tiger. runs flawlessly thus far. you ppl dont have external firewire or extra internal hard drives ? upgrading over your old system is just careles. you should wipe your machine every major system release. your problems come from layering systems. did you at lease do a clean install (archive and install while preserving users and settings?) thats the only other way id do it. mmmm tiger

April 29 2005 at 7:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
bryan

I do like the new mail app though :) and spotlight is cool

April 29 2005 at 5:57 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Izmet Fekali

Safari 2.0 won't launch until you upgrade AcidSearch to Tiger version.

April 29 2005 at 5:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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