Tiger review

[mmcirvin]

Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) is out, and you may know what that means: John Siracusa wrote another fascinating review for Ars Technica, concentrating less on the advertised features and more on interesting stuff under the hood that bodes well for the future. Among other things, Tiger includes a major revamp of Quartz Extreme that is curiously disabled in the shipping installation, and new features at the BSD level that suggest a move toward rich file metadata (a near-obsession of Siracusa's).

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[urbeatle.livejournal.com]

now that it's out, I can tell you something else about Tiger I'm sure you'll want to know: Graphing Calculator is now updated to OS X.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I heard about that. Oddly, Pacific Tech's original Graphing Calculator has already been updated to OS X, but the one that ships with Tiger is not the same application, but is derived from a competitor called Curvus Pro X. Looks good, anyway.

Ahem.

[sunburn.livejournal.com]

NEeeeeEEEeeeeEEEeeeerrrrrrRrrrD!

[jecook]

Yes, he does go on and on for a while about the virtues of metadata.

I do know that I won't be getting it for the lone mac in our house, because we never bothered to get a DVD_ROM drive for the emac. (When I asked a person at the mac store, they told me that it was pretty much impossible to replace the internal optiocal drive on it. Riiight.)

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

You can apparently get it on CD somehow, but it seems like they make it nontrivial to do.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Here it is: (http://www.apple.com/macosx/upgrade/) over on the right side of the page in little bitty type, you can see that there's a "Tiger Media Exchange" program that will get you the CD for an extra $9.95. Seems like an annoying way to go about it, though.