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Friday, July 02, 2004

First Impression Of Tiger: Eh

Apple-X.net: "Tiger is Disappointing, to Say the Least. After getting my hands on Tiger, and giving it a try, I was simply not impressed. It was basically Panther with Konfabulator and QuickSilver now built into the OS. Worst of all, these new 'features' looked more like Windows XP than Mac OS X. We would post screenshots, but there really is not anything to show you that is not already on Apple.com. To be fair, Tiger did feel much quicker and snappier than Panther, although it still looked and felt like Panther. The biggest speed boost I noticed was present in the new Safari, it was--shockingly--much faster. Also, despite Spotlight's XP-like appearance, on my 1.25GHz Al PowerBook G4 it was nearly as fast as when presented by Steve Jobs in his Keynote--although there is much to be desired in the accuracy of Spotlight's search results ... Dashboard, Spotlight, and the new Finder search buttons freakishly resemble XP."

I've been critical of Apple's lukewarm Tiger updates, but let's be serious here for a minute: It's a bit early to declare that the whole release is disappointing.

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