Installed Tiger yesterday evening. Did an archive & install and had no problems whatsoever. The only strange thing is that the icon for Mail in the doc somehow tries to start the old version of Mail, which doesn't exist anymore and therefore fails. Removing it and dragging the new icon in there solved the issue.
Tiger is full of neat little features and enhancements, most of which have been described at length elsewhere. I did however find quite a few I wasn't aware of, like:
- The new slideshow tool is really neat. With the click of a button it shows all images in the slide-show in an expose type fashion. All images "explode" onto the screen from the center and snap back when you select one. Very slick.
- Spotlight searching rocks! Not only does it find virtually everything, include IPTC tags, content in PDFs and Photoshop and more, it goes further. If it for instance finds a hit inside a PDF file and you open it, preview jumps to the first occurance of the word in the PDF immediately. It also opens the search panel to display all other occurances as well. Exactly what you hope it would do!
- Address book is whole lot quicker. I have my entire company's contact-list in there, a few thousand people. This used to be agonizingly slow. Not anymore.
- Almost everything now slides, fades, reveals, squashes etc. when switching between "modes". Quicktime zooms from a window to full-screen smoothly, searching in Mail slides in the preview-pane when selecting an email, dashboard widgets revolve around to show the widget's settings on the back, opening the widget-tray moves the entire desktop up to make room for the selection bar, etc. etc. Panther did some of this, but Tiger is taking it to a whole new level. It really has the effect of making everything appear more natural and integrated.
- Grapher really is a rather full-featured graphing calculator, with dynamic "pretty print" scientific notation and everything.
- Automator looks really neat, although I'm not yet sure what I will use it for. Perhaps I try and get it to accept Ruby scripts as building-blocks or something...
- Safari 2.0 is even faster then 1.3
And a whole lot more. In my mind there is no question: upgrade!
