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Tiger Installed
Just
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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Sean Graham said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
I suspect that the Spotlight indexing and the beach ball are related... I've heard it takes a few hours for Spotlight to do it's initial index, and during that time it is doing quite alot of disk IO...
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san said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
What we really want to know: Do you have a lowly Mobility Radeon 9600 in your PowerBook? And if so does it work with Core Image and Quartz 2D Extreme? Simply put, do you get the ripple effect in Dashboard with the MR9600?
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C.K. Sample, III said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
GeForce FX Go5200:
Chipset Model: GeForce FX Go5200
Type: Display
Bus: AGP
VRAM (Total): 64 MB
Vendor: nVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0329
Revision ID: 0x00a3
ROM Revision: 2086
Displays:
Display:
Type: Display
Display Type: LCD
Resolution: 1024 x 768
Depth: 32-bit Color
Core Image: Supported
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Quartz Extreme: Supported
;-)
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bryan said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
I am dissapointed my iMAC G4 1ghz doesnt do the ripple effect when adding widgets :'(
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san said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
This is amazing we still don't have an answer about the Mobility Radeon 9600. You'd think some TUAW reader would have installed it and tried it by now.
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steve jobs said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
yeah i installed tiger and i have a radeon 9600. the ripple effect does occur with the 9600 and dashboard is awesome may i add. however the best part about tiger is quicktime. H2684 or whatever they call it is perfect for watching low quality porn
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Scott said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
I absolutely hate the new Quicktime logo and the new blue color of the Apple logo in the upper left of the screen.
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Izmet Fekali said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
Safari 2.0 won't launch until you upgrade AcidSearch to Tiger version.
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bryan said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
I do like the new mail app though :) and spotlight is cool
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Calihafan said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
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
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liedra said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
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!
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Carl said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
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?
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Steve M said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
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.
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Chris Mcdowell said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
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.
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Pedro said 8:41AM on 6-17-2005
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).
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GE said 11:23AM on 6-17-2005
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.
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Josh said 10:03PM on 6-20-2005
I installed Tiger and ran into one problem. Safari 2.0 quits on launch. I went to Apple.com to download a new version of 2.0, alas, it does not exist on Apple.com yet. So I decided to go back to 1.2... However, Safari 1.2 is not compatible with tiger. I am stuck using Firefox. (Not a horrible thing mind you) but Safari is my browser of choice and I was looking forward to using the new RSS features of Safari... anyone else have this problem? Any fixes?
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motech said 6:20PM on 7-10-2005
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
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warren Buckley said 4:32PM on 8-09-2005
Josh, if your safari won't launch, delete the preferences. found in:
homefolder/library/preferences/com.apple.safari.plist
If that doesn't work, download cocktail (macupdate.com) and use 'Pilot' to repair permissions and clean out caches.
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Lacy said 10:43AM on 9-22-2005
Installed Tiger at about 3.30 PM UK time.......gotta say I love it so far, especially spotlight which just knocked me flat. Whatever you have read about it, nothing prepares you for the speed, power and flexibility of this feature.....now I just wish I'd had the foresight to 'keyword' all my images in iphoto....... Dashboard is OK I suppose....yea it's a nice feature but all the widgets look a little 'Toys'R'Us' for my liking.....
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