Learning to Let Go and Let Tiger

Good to hear, C.K. Tiger works brilliantly on my 12" PowerBook. I purposely waited on purchasing my portable until I knew that Tiger was the default OS on it. No messing with backing up, erase & installs. I didn't want Panther touching my computer at all. I've heard enough horror stories about computers acting poorly after an Archive & Install upgrade.

I too used to organize my files, doccuments, etc. Since tiger I still do, sortof, but I never look for it using finder, but rather spotlight. Have you found a way to quit Dashboard, to keep it from taking a minute to launch on accident? (besides kill interminal)

I guess some people don't bother to actually read the author's post before commenting. As he stated, he has a new machine with a fresh install. period. He's using the fresh OS install with a fresh viewpoint. That's smart, also very rare. Congratulations, your insight is very, very welcome. My partner just moved to a new iMac G5 & 10.4 straight from MacOS 9.1 While a little intimidated at first, now I hear at least weekly: "I LOVE my new computer!" And she's using maybe 5-10% of Tiger's capabilities. There you have it.

Is a clean install really that neccessary? I did a simple upgrade and have had no problems.

Personally, I don't know what the point of doing a upgrade in the first place would be when you had the option to clean install. The chance to have a squeaky clean installation of a brand new OS (granted, I waited for 10.4.2) is more than worth the temporary pains of backing up data and preferences. Just my thoughts . . . I've certainly beeen loving Tiger, including Spotlight.