On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 03:13:57PM +0000, Stuart Bell wrote: > > The $64,000 question is whether I should, at last, upgrade to 10.4 from > Panther. What would I gain and lose, please?
I'm sure that you've read all of the marketing material put out by Apple. Here are my experiences: Spotlight is handy but: 1) Won't index the keywords of photos unless you have iPhoto5 (I don't), and I do have a lot of tagged photos. 2) Takes ages to find anything. None of the snappy search results that you see at a keynote. (My Tiger machine is a 867MHz Powerbook w/640MB Ram) 3) Because it takes ages to find anything, if you try to click in the list of results before it's finished, your target may have moved and you end up clicking on something else by mistake! Grrrr. Dashboard: Actually pretty useful. I like the fact that I could program up some widgets to do things my way. New look mail is pretty nice, but I'm a mutt fan so I use that instead... ;o) Safari RSS is really really great. It is by far the best RSS reader I've tried and has completely changed the way that I use the web. I haven't used Automator really (despite having had Tiger for 4months). When I first tried, it seemed to take an age to start up. I'm sure that it's super-handy, but I've not really got into it. Otherwise things are pretty much like Panther, there are no huge performance gains/hits and there are no massive useability improvements (c.f. App Switcher and Expose in Panther). Anyhow, that's my impression. Cheers, Tim -- Mac UK is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac UK list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-uk.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-uk%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
