Tiger Anyone? Options

[Arnolfo]

Has anyone tried Tiger on a slow machine? I have a TiBook 550 with 1GB ram and am considering an upgrade. Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks!

[lepetitmartien]

The few around (not me) with it installed are toying still with it… If it's like Panther, we should have them show their heads after a day or two… unshaved, red eyed…

The few reports we have have on the French side insist on the clean install, some seem to have some small troubles if not doing so.

For the slow computers, the finder is more punchy, it should be a good news.

[lepetitmartien]

Well, a warning, if you plan to instal Tiger as you only OS, you should really clone your panther etc. and also pay attention to the updates to the software, in audio it's a flood! New drivers, eventually upadates to apps. Beware! If the editors do so, it's because it-won't-work-without…

One of our member Bonatoc just finished to install everything and is discovering the new mLAN for his 01X…

[dixiechicken]

Generally speaking mac OS-X has actually gotten real speed bumps along the major
releases. (perhaps not always dramatic speed increases - but still...)
Tiger is no exception to this rule.
Reports from various users on the Unicornation BBS seem to indicate that Tiger is
indeed a bit snappier than Panther.
Also check out this article from Ars techica:
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars

The article is long but very instructive in parts and required reading for any Mac enthusiast.
The article can downloaded as pdf-file and perused at your leisure.

Cheers: Dixiechicken

[lepetitmartien]

The arstechnica article is great, I'm into reading it (about to start page 3), lots of under the hood input on why things are like they are in a developer/editor point of view, yet still decipherable for the average mac geek.

The last 10.3.8 and 10.3.9 were definitely almost snappy, i can't wait to see Tiger running here myself. I'll install it on the old G3 too, any performance increase will be instantly seen on it (G3 BW 400). But it'll wait a few days, too busy now.

[dixiechicken]

Upgraded to Tiger today. No problems so far.
Everything is a bit snappier. Life is good.

Cheers: Dixiechicken

[reddish]

tiger is amazing......... if only all my plugins were compatible... oh well give it time i guess but if any one has any pull with linplug and arturia tell em to get a move on lol

[The Guitar God]

Is it worh the £70?

[reddish]

well i am still screwing around with it i like dashboard, and automator well actually i think that it will become a great update to the OSX system it does have a whole lot of extra functionality.

[stoprunner]

I've installed tiger on my Ti 15" 500 with 1Ghz of ram and eveything seems crispier that before, even the screen seems clearer, with reason 3.0, there is no difference than before, everything works fine. I did an upgrade installation, so all my setups have remained the same. I was wondering if a clean install will improve anything, I was temted to do it but in the end I went for the simpler way.