Early adopter question: How is Tiger? Is it really a must have upgrade? Why?
C'mon now. We need an impartial critique! Be fair
I've had your question in the back of my mind for a while, so I thought I'd give my take on Tiger.
I've had Tiger since the day it came out - I was impressed, or maybe I should say dazzled by it at first. I had an inkling that my first impressions may not live-up to the reality of the new system's capabilities as I was clueless as to how to make the new features work.
Dashboard - I thought this was just toy trinkets for the Desktop - it's beginning to actually become useful as new widgets come out. I really like the new Google Map and several others. I actually use them - I didn't think I would.
Automator is not very useful, yet. I've tinkered with it, but when other applications, particularly Office, implement Automator scripting, it will be possible for many people to do scripting. AppleScript is too difficult for most people to use. BTW, Automator can run AppleScripts that you may already have.
Spotlight - This will change your relationship to your computer, slowly. It is extremely powerful yet difficult to control. Apple needs to keep upgrading the human interface. Spotlight finds too much stuff on your search terms - so it will take a lot of practice writing search terms and selecting searching schemes to get more directly to the file you want.
Spotlight works throughout the system: from the menu bar, in the Finder folder windows, in Mail, in System Preferences, in the File Open Window, etc.
You get a few other nice things like a fast Safari (but you need to kill the cache), A new Mail application, QuickTime 7 and a new iChat.
You have to practice to become a power user of Spotlight; and you can't practice until you are running Tiger. For this reason alone, I recommend getting Tiger as soon as you can. |
