Do I Really Need Tiger??

[Maedus]

Southbridge is right though. We shouldn't buy Tiger because it isn't that much better than Panther. In fact, I was thinking of getting the new iMac G5s when they revise, but hey, Southbridge taught me that its wrong and that its just cheap marketing ploy trying to trick me into buying a second rate product.

I mean, what can an iMac G5 do what my Power Mac G3 Beige can't? G3 processor. G5 processor. There's only a difference of 2 there. I'll wait until the difference is like 5 or 6 when its noticeable. Ram? My Power Mac has 3 slots! Take that iMac with only 2 slots! Plus I have PCI slots as well as a Zip Drive, Optical Drive, and Floppy Drive! No zip or floppy drive on the iMac! Lacking again! And who needs a bigger and faster hard drive? Its basically the same principle as seen in older hard drives so its not revolutionary. I'll wait until they start imprinting data into 3 Dimensional crystals. And all the computer specs listed for the iMac G5 and the PowerMac G3 are all the same specs, so the iMac G5 isn't really that spectacular of an upgrade. Its just a 2nd rate upgrade of stuff jumbled together so that I'd be tricked into thinking the iMac G5 was significantly better than my Power Mac G3 Beige.

Whoo, I feel so much better now. I almost wasted $1500 - 2000 USD on a Steve Jobs marketing ploy.

 

[TigerPRO]

Southbridge is right though. We shouldn't buy Tiger because it isn't that much better than Panther. In fact, I was thinking of getting the new iMac G5s when they revise, but hey, Southbridge taught me that its wrong and that its just cheap marketing ploy trying to trick me into buying a second rate product.

I mean, what can an iMac G5 do what my Power Mac G3 Beige can't? G3 processor. G5 processor. There's only a difference of 2 there. I'll wait until the difference is like 5 or 6 when its noticeable. Ram? My Power Mac has 3 slots! Take that iMac with only 2 slots! Plus I have PCI slots as well as a Zip Drive, Optical Drive, and Floppy Drive! No zip or floppy drive on the iMac! Lacking again! And who needs a bigger and faster hard drive? Its basically the same principle as seen in older hard drives so its not revolutionary. I'll wait until they start imprinting data into 3 Dimensional crystals. And all the computer specs listed for the iMac G5 and the PowerMac G3 are all the same specs, so the iMac G5 isn't really that spectacular of an upgrade. Its just a 2nd rate upgrade of stuff jumbled together so that I'd be tricked into thinking the iMac G5 was significantly better than my Power Mac G3 Beige.

Whoo, I feel so much better now. I almost wasted $1500 - 2000 USD on a Steve Jobs marketing ploy.

LOL!!!! ROTF!!!! Nice post Maedus. Thanks.

 

[daveL]

look. I'll be happy when someone says this switch to tiger is wholly unecessary and its really a push from the marketing department of apple (S. Jobs) who have decided to jumble some stuff together and fool the buying public into giving Apple money for a second rate product. Thats all.

Troll.

 

[James Philp]

LOL!!!! ROTF!!!! Nice post Maedus. Thanks.

Same here. Wellpointed out Maedus. What i was trying to say too.
As with most human exploits, what we do in our past affects what we will do in the future, but that doesn't neccasserily make it unoriginal or valuable!

 

[Muzukun]

ok... well now I got all the fan boy opinions howabout some others? I mean come on. You're too lazy to use the net for a dictionary? Its more stuff on your computer that you'll never use in a million years. Great. More search capabilities. Like I use the search capability so much now... Widget? um... so whats wrong with the gui? My point is there is nothing that really jumps out as a necessity.



Its called minimum requirements. It seems that tiger has minimum requirements last time I checked...

*laughs* ahhh thanks, was wondering when someone would go against the fanboys

Honestly all I see with this is just spotlight, that's the main thing everyone seems to keep on touting as the greatest thing in the world now. Every webcast I see it seems 'ok, here it is, spotlight and dashboard... umm I mean tiger'

Yeah these things are great, however after switching from a PC I got to say the mac search system is a hell of alot faster then windows as it is. And I love expose' already, and sadly enough dashboard would be something I'll end up using quite a bit anyways (college student, random crap that usually is useless is my god). Beyond that though, from what I've heard new OS revisions are constantly faster with Mac OS, if tiger keeps up the trend, you'll get something a little bit more snappy. Some of the programs I use already are saying it will only be compatible with Tiger after this (granted that's only Quicksilver that's saying that but... still... I like Quicksilver...).

All in all, do you need this? No, of course not. If you're happy with what you have, save yourself $129.00 and be happy. It's not like Jaguar or whatever you're using will explode the second Tiger comes out. Your OS is doing it's job right now and you should be happy with that (and I'm sure you already are happy with it too). Some people need to be on the bleeding edge of the cutting edge and they'll get it, some wont know any better and they'll get it, some are drooling for all the happy new features that only a select number of users will use and they'll get it, some just will buy it for so (and that education discount is soooo sweet! ). But yeah, all in all, if you're asking yourself whether or not if you need Tiger, you've already answered the question yourself. You have doubt, that means all the arguements you've heard so far have yet to convince you that you need this, so you don't need it. Pocket the money and be happy

 

[CubaTBird]

big difference....between..g3..and...g5...wow..........

 

[Soulstorm]

Southbridge is right though. We shouldn't buy Tiger because it isn't that much better than Panther. In fact, I was thinking of getting the new iMac G5s when they revise, but hey, Southbridge taught me that its wrong and that its just cheap marketing ploy trying to trick me into buying a second rate product.

I mean, what can an iMac G5 do what my Power Mac G3 Beige can't? G3 processor. G5 processor. There's only a difference of 2 there. I'll wait until the difference is like 5 or 6 when its noticeable. Ram? My Power Mac has 3 slots! Take that iMac with only 2 slots! Plus I have PCI slots as well as a Zip Drive, Optical Drive, and Floppy Drive! No zip or floppy drive on the iMac! Lacking again! And who needs a bigger and faster hard drive? Its basically the same principle as seen in older hard drives so its not revolutionary. I'll wait until they start imprinting data into 3 Dimensional crystals. And all the computer specs listed for the iMac G5 and the PowerMac G3 are all the same specs, so the iMac G5 isn't really that spectacular of an upgrade. Its just a 2nd rate upgrade of stuff jumbled together so that I'd be tricked into thinking the iMac G5 was significantly better than my Power Mac G3 Beige.

Whoo, I feel so much better now. I almost wasted $1500 - 2000 USD on a Steve Jobs marketing ploy.

That's a good point there. Where would technology be if there wasn't the need for faster software and hardware?

It would be standing still at the late 70's...

 

[James Philp]

That's a good point there. Where would technology be if there wasn't the need for faster software and hardware?

It would be standing still at the late 70's...

Awesome - those were the days!
Starsky & Hutch - I love that show!
Quincey! - another classic.

Oh wow, if only it had!

 

[MarkCollette]

REMEMBER; they pretty much REBUILD the Kernel (core) of the OS with each release, and have done in Tiger's case more than in any other.

OS X 10.0 through OS X 10.3 are all based on FreedBSD 4.x whereas OS X 10.4 is based on FreeBSD 5.x. FreeBSD only increments the major version number when things are no longer compatible, because new incompatible features have been added. They only add incompatible features when they're noticeably better than the old way. For example, one of the main new features is fine grained locking, to better support multiple processors, which will improve all those Dual G5 PowerMacs out there. Even with a single CPU computers, multi-tasking will work faster and better.

Long story short: the 10.4 kernel will be a leap ahead of the 10.3 kernel.