RFI: MacOSX Tiger 10.4 Opinions/Feedback

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org>
Date: June 13, 2005 10:45:20 PM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: RFI: MacOSX Tiger 10.4 Opinions/Feedback



(also sent to my infowarrior-l list)

After running OSX 10.4 for a month now, I've got to say that I'm less  
than
enthused.  Among other "improvements" touted by Apple, I find  
Spotlight to
be bloated and a CPU hog and it was the first thing I found a "hack" to
disable it and reclaim my CPU.  Widgets? Nice, but more eye candy than
utility for me.  Spotlight? The old Sherlock Find was more than  
adequate --
not to mention, Apple's default implementation of Spotlight makes it too
overwhelming for casual users to figure out right from the start.

While there are a few things about 10.4 that I like such as Safari  
2.0 and
Mail 2.0 (among other little GUI tweaks here and there), I'm not sure  
it's
really anything that "special" in terms of how Apple's marketing  
mavens are
raving about it.....and after the month or so that 10.4 has been out,  
I'm
more than a bit surprised about the number of mixed reviews it  
continues to
receive from both power-users and regular users on the Mac boards I
frequent.

To me, 10.3 felt like a pretty finished OS.  10.4 feels "okay" but  
there are
notable times when I'm holding my breath expecting an app to crash or
something along those lines -- and I have had to force-quit more OSX- 
native
apps under 10.4 than I ever did under 10.3. Coupled with new  
"features" that
are shoved down our throats in 10.4 that are either half-baked or
poorly-implemented...well, frankly, there's a growing part of me that is
thinking seriously about going back to 10.3 on my 1GHZ TiPB.

I'm curious what other thoughts are, those of you that are using 10.4.

Rick
-infowarrior.org





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