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yes...

YES! I am getting my new powerbook in the mail today and I hope that 10.4.1 comes out soon after I install Tiger so I don't run into all the problems that some people have.
 
According to Microsoft, yes...

AidenShaw said:
You mean that I shouldn't still be using a system volume that started out as an NT 4.0 system in Jan of 1998? Do Mac people really need to reformat the hard drive every year?

This system's gone from NT 4 plus each of the SPn to Win2000 beta to Win2000 then plus each SPn to XP beta to XP to XP sp1 to XP sp2. (It's also gone from a 266 MHz PII to a 2.6 GHz P4, but that's a separate thread.)

I'd planned to upgrade to the Longhorn beta - do you think that a clean install would be a better idea?

According to Microsoft's own whitepaper, the answer is yes:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/deploy/upwpload.mspx

Just as I learned in my MCSE training classes... :rolleyes:
 
Apolgy...

matticus008 said:
The MCSE training apparently left out the "sense of humor" chapters :).

I think AidenShaw was being sarcastic.
But in all seriousness, congrats on the MCSE, that test is a mean bastard.

Apology to Aiden if the original posting was scarcasm. Due to the late hour, it did not register. Reading it again, I sense that scarcasm was most likely intended.
 
jet3004 said:
For most of those who say that Tiger has given them NO problems, I say this: You haven't done everything there is to do in Tiger yet, then. Because there ARE bugs. Whether or not you've encountered them is entirely due to you, but they are there. We all got the same build of Tiger shipped out to us and they do exist. Have no worries. Apple will take care of them.


Very true... some bugs are pretty much unavoidable in a new OS... the more new features, the more bugs your likely to find. I just hop they get that Dashboard security issue fixed with this update....
 
In retrospect I think upgrading to 10.4.0 was a dumb move. My system was sweet'n'stable under 10.3.9 but I just had to have all the new fun toys in XCode 2.

So now I've got said fun toys, but the price I've had to pay has been high. Most of my peripherals are disconnected until their drivers are updated. I've yet to reinstall quite a few apps because they just plain don't work. True, I did get Deep Sleep back, which I'd lost after I put a LaCie FW800 card in the machine, but it seems to have brough all sorts of Firewire weirdness with it.

Oh, and one thing I've found is that Verify Disk lies. Claims that my system is clean as could be, but if I boot into single-user mode and run fsck_hfs on these "clean" drives, the car crash that's revealed tells a different story. I'm not sure if I've just been unlucky in the number of times I've had to hard reset the machine, or if there's something in Tiger that's actively corrupting the file system.

Al
 
awrc said:
In retrospect I think upgrading to 10.4.0 was a dumb move. My system was sweet'n'stable under 10.3.9 but I just had to have all the new fun toys in XCode 2.

Al

I'm sure that you are enjoying all the new toys of Tiger. It's not dumb to want something new. Although I'm still on Panther. My wife also went to Tiger, so far nothing that bothers her.
 
As a former Windows user, I learned to always wait for the .1 version (or even the .2 version) before upgrading to any software. I'm doing the same for Tiger. I waited for more than a year before upgrading to OS X, so, a few months of waiting is nothing.
 
daveL said:
10.4.1 seed 8B13 went up on ADC late yesterday. Some more bug fixes, obviously.

Dave; where are you seeing this? Software update tells me that my system is completely up to date.

Be gentle, I'm relatively new to the Mac.

~D.
 
Coach Wade said:
Dave; where are you seeing this? Software update tells me that my system is completely up to date.

Be gentle, I'm relatively new to the Mac.

~D.
ADC is the Apple Developer Connection. If you have a paid membership, you have access to development seeds that are issued for testing prior to a public release. 10.4.1 isn't available, yet, but it's progressing.
 
A really annoying bug has been annoying me since I installed Tiger. I even reinstalled just to see, and nope the bug's still there. I really hope 10.4.1 fixes this bug, it's starting to piss me off.
 
Raven VII said:
A really annoying bug has been annoying me since I installed Tiger. I even reinstalled just to see, and nope the bug's still there. I really hope 10.4.1 fixes this bug, it's starting to piss me off.

You didn't explain the bug. Hopefully you sent a message to Apple. ;)
 
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