Does anyone have experience with Intel Tiger?

[mgridgaway]

Specifically, can anyone agree with me that's it an semi-unstable platform? My girlfriend has a 2006 iMac4,1, and it always seems to have OS-related glitches and oddities. PPC Tiger was always rock solid for me, but I seem to have a lot more issues with the Intel version (what little exposure I get, that is).

Not a big deal though; I'm planning on upgrading her to Snow Leopard come college break in December.

And an additional note: yeah, it's odd that I'm asking this just days before SL is released...but hey, it's still worth asking.

 

[Amdahl]

I never noticed it to have any problems, especially if it is 10.4.11.

 

[Eidorian]

It always worked fine for me.

The only oddity I remember is USB file transfers slowing Finder's rendering to a crawl.

 

[mgridgaway]

It always worked fine for me.

The only oddity I remember is USB file transfers slowing Finder's rendering to a crawl.

Never experienced that. Just today though, apps would randomly be unable to fullly quit, and ejected iPods and flash drives remained in the finder. a restart and a thorough run of Onyx fixed the issues, but still, a bit odd.

 

[Eidorian]

Never experienced that. Just today though, apps would randomly be unable to fullly quit, and ejected iPods and flash drives remained in the finder. a restart and a thorough run of Onyx fixed the issues, but still, a bit odd.

You didn't mention checking the logs.

Onyx seems to be some sort of panacea around here. It's up there with Repairing Disk Permissions.

 

[mgridgaway]

You didn't mention checking the logs.

Onyx seems to be some sort of panacea around here. It's up there with Repairing Disk Permissions.

It's not, but I don't doubt it's usefulness for a second.

And I didn't mention checking the logs because I didn't. If a simple restart/Onyx (with debate on which one actually helped more) combo can fix the issue, that's good enough for me. It's not likely they're going to release 10.4.12.

 

[otis123]

every intel mac with tiger on it that i have used has been slow and buggy, it was a weird OS not quite a tiger, not quite a leopard.

 

[mgridgaway]

every intel mac with tiger on it that i have used has been slow and buggy, it was a weird OS not quite a tiger, not quite a leopard.

Well you officially validated my thoughts, even if it is just the two of us.