Theirs an article at ARS TECHNICA that explains why Tiger is one of the most significant upgrades to OS X. Instead of plain'ol eye candy, 10.4 is a mjor under the hodd advance in more ways than one can easily count.

It's a large techincal article, but the improvement to the graphic, video, and audio subsystems are huge, both in terms of performance and design.

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars/14

Forgot about all of that eye candy. It's what's under the hood that makes hamburger out of Longhorn.

How does one "clean up" Safari and rid the slooow closing window or tab?

I have no idea what he is taking about - never had that trouble.

Hi Andy,

thanks for these entertaining and wellwritten articles. A real pleasure to read!

prasado

PS: To poster no.1: You are right, this is not The Ultimate Review Of Every Aspect Of Tiger ... but that's not what you actually want to read here ... since you already read that at Ars Technica, right?

And if you are drooling when reading about under-the-hood improvements, then you are true geek. Andy may be a nerd, but he is not a geek. You'll just have to live with that

I've only experienced Tiger at the Apple Store. However, having played with the same hardware under Panther, I can say that the feel and speed of Tiger is a major upgrade from Panther-- regardless of the new features' pros and cons. Everything is snappier, smoother, and just, well, "cooler." (Show's my age, I suppose.) Apps launch faster and things just work faster. That may not be worth the price of an upgrade but, along with things like built in dictionary and thesaurus-- not mentioned by Andy but of value to a writer like myself-- and Spotlight, etc. the whole is perhaps more than a sum of its parts. Improving the motion to motion experience of the OS is probably more important to me than individual features.
Some of this might be moot if one has a dual 2.7 mhz G5 since things are already so fast; but if one has a less Maserati-ish v. of the Mac the speed and fluidity are a significant upgrade.

Steve

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Theirs an article at ARS TECHNICA that explains why Tiger sucks. It's eye candy.

It's a large techincal article, but the improvement to the graphic, video, and audio subsystems are nothing, both in terms of performance and design.

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars/14

Forgot about all of that eye candy. Get Longhorn.

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Theirs an article at ARS TECHNICA that explains why Tiger sucks. It's eye candy.

It's a large techincal article, but the improvement to the graphic, video, and audio subsystems are nothing, both in terms of performance and design.

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars/14

Forgot about all of that eye candy. Get Longhorn.

Okay ... that excellent ARS Technica review spends 16 pages explaining in wonderful detail how cool and revolutionary Tiger is.

"Forgot about all of that eye candy. Get Longhorn."

Longhorn? Longhorn doesn't exist. Maybe it will in 2 years, who knows. (just like Cairo, haha) And the current screenshots of Longhorn look butt-ugly and unusable; even Microsoft fanboys were unimpressed.

Okay ... that excellent ARS Technica review spends 16 pages explaining in wonderful detail how cool and revolutionary Tiger is.

"Forgot about all of that eye candy. Get Longhorn."

Longhorn? Longhorn doesn't exist. Maybe it will in 2 years, who knows. (just like Cairo, haha) And the current screenshots of Longhorn look butt-ugly and unusable; even Microsoft fanboys were unimpressed.

Try deleting tons of cookies. (You could go whole-hog and delete them all, but then you'd have to log in again - just once per website that uses cookies to store your login - this doesn't break cookies - to all those websites you've set to "remember me" and you won't remember the password for half of them and then you'll need to figure out each sites' password reset policy, and which email account did you register with on that site anyway, etc, etc, etc.)

Safari - Preferences.
Security tab.
Click "Show Cookies" button.
Select the cookies you want to delete (usual shift-click, cmd-click select options are available) and click Remove.
Or, if you're not bothered by having logging in to websites again, just click Remove All.

Yeah, Ars certainly isn't the most tolerant place on the net, certainly not for us Mac users.

I used to read <a href="http://www.arstechnica.com">Ars Technica</a>, until it became apparent that "Caesar" <a href="http://arstechnica.com/wankerdesk/bios/caesar.html">Ken Fisher</a> is a racist. He typically comes off like your typical smug armchair intellectual, but once he gets fired up, he's got quite a mouth on him. I've seen him get pretty worked up and go off on people on IRC over basically nothing.

It's too bad, too, since the other guys on the site like Hannibal are actually pretty smart. You know what they say about one bad apple...

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Okay ... that excellent ARS Technica review spends 16 pages explaining in wonderful detail how Tiger takes Mac fans to the next level of difficulty regarding troubleshooting.

"Forgot about all of that eye candy. Get Longhorn."

Longhorn? Longhorn doesn't exist. Maybe it will be called into existence by some deity in 2 years, who knows. (just like Cyberdog 2, haha) And the current screenshots of my butt serve as guidelines for Apple's next interface.