Installing Tiger
On Wednesday, after driving to work and hoping for a quick stomp on the bike afterwards, I cruised by the Apple store in Palo Alto and picked up Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4). I knew I was going to need some time to install it, so I decided to install it today, since I cancelled my metric century this afternoon, due to bike part issues.
The longest part of the installation involved reformatting my 40 gig external Firewire drive and using Carbon Copy Cloner to make a bootable backup of my PowerBook’s hard drive. That took two episodes of Firefly to complete.
The installation took less than an hour and all of my applications appear to be working just fine—with the solitary notable exception of vim, which doesn’t seem to boot. X11 doesn’t bring the xterm to the front when switching to it from other applications, but Reason 2.5 launches fine.
The new features seem pretty nifty. I don’t dislike Mail’s new look as much as other people out there seem to. Dashboard is pretty nifty and I even downloaded a few extra widgets for it. Safari‘s new RSS functionality is really cool, especially since it creates a splash page for a feed, similar to how Sage for Firefox works, but I’ll probably just continue using Sage and Firefox primarily.
I’ve played with Spotlight a little bit, and love the way it opened iTunes when it found an MP3 that matched my search query, but I haven’t had a chance to explore it much yet. I haven’t played with Automator or any of the other new features yet. My computer seems a little faster, though.
All in all, the installation was a breeze and other than the extra time it took the new Mail to import from the old mail, it was all completely effortless.
Well, done, Apple!
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