Do the Dashboard apps such as calendar replace the existing apps? Would have thought so but noticed that in the video you can still see the existing calendar is present. I really hope we aren't going to end up with multiple versions of stuff.
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is there anyway they offer a free upgrade if you've bought an apple in say the past month ?
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You get a free upgrade if you bought a mac since the 12th April.
Dashboard doesn't replace anything - it's an overlay. iCal, etc, still remain. It's just a way of having handy widgets on a seperate layer. Check the weather, calendar, hit F12; hit F12 and they go away.
The new feature you really want to pay attention to is Automator. It's a dead-easy GUI frontend to Applescript, which was about as easy as scripting languages came. This is going to get people's parents and grandparents (well, maybe) writing their own batch actions and stuff. So many users could benefit from this it's unreal.
Lots of interesting under-the-hood stuff (Core Image, Core Video) for developers, and can we please stop confusing Sherlock with Spotlight? The former is not really very good, and the latter could be anything from "nifty" to "awesome".
Anyhow, seeing as I'm still running 10.2.8 and missed out Panther (and thus lots of apps like Quicksilver) entirely, am upgrading asap. Ought to make my tired PB run faster, too...Comment
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So is that confirmed? If so where did you see it?Originally posted by Paleface
I'm probably going to be placing a mini mac order next week but I'd want to be damn sure I get tiger with it or for free when its launched!Comment
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Stuff like the stock ticker etc are standalone but the Stickies, Address Book, Calendar etc *should* use existing data at the very least but they are apps in their own right from the looks of it.Originally posted by Gareth CComment
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It is on the Apple web site...where else?Originally posted by gizmo1990Comment
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Gizmo:
You just have to pay for the media - ?12 in this case. Usually, if you order a system AFTER it's launched and they haven't had time to upgrade it, they throw an upgrade DVD in free. As it is, you just fill out a form with your serial number and receipt and the money, and send it off. Tada.Comment
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Thats excellent news on the free upgrade. I should be picking up my new iBook on Saturday and I was wandering about that. Splendid
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well it's out tmrrw any idea on how the 5 license jobbie works are their 5 cd keys or something similar and how easy will it be to install over panther? which i'm currently on
the new features look lush though!
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Bought a Mac Mini yesterday at the new Apple store, it came with Tiger!Comment
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Roooooooooooar ..... *tiger*Comment
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I upgraded my 10.2.8 PB to 10.4 yesterday. Bit of ups and downs; lots of fan action that was a bit uncontrollable, I think, because Spotlight's indexing consumes HELL OF processor. When I plug in my external HD, full of stuff, it goes mental again.
Now it's all settled down, and the only problem I have is that it forgets the name of my wireless network every time I sleep it or restart it. Am still investigating fixing that.
Anyhow, one thing for you developers out there on the offchance this affects you: PHP isn't turned on in the httpd.conf file, so PHP won't render. Changing this is easy; you just have to uncomment the lines inbeginningCode:/etc/httpd/httpd.conf
andCode:LoadModule php4_module
, and then restart websharing (or evenCode:AddModule mod_php4.c
and all your local PHP stuff will work again.Code:sudo apachectl graceful
Phew.Comment
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I take it the processor and hard drive going mental is just a one off thing while it indexes?Comment
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Apparently. Though I'd read (in the arstechnica review) that it just affects the hdd, not processor.Comment
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Yeah, it's just the initial indexing. After that, it runs smooth as silk.
Also, multitasking performance has been vastly improved, especially for applications that do a lot of I/O (finer-grained locking in the kernel, which was long overdue, especially if they intend to roll out quad boxes anytime soon).
Tiger is bliss. It's like a second (well, third) life for my 867 12" AlBook. ^^
A bit of disappointment for me, though, is that the installed version of Python is 2.3.5. I'm gonna install 2.4.1 ASAP, just have to find what I have to configure in addition to the standard ./configure && make && sudo make install.Comment
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