First of all, Tiger has tons of new features that have nothing to do with eye candy, but are intended for developers (apart from 64-bit aspects of the system).byla said:This is what is most worrying
It seems that noone is developing real, public used 64 bit applications for OS X, not even Mental Images with their not so public Mental Ray.
Even Maxon gave up on offering Cinema 4d 64 bit on OSX and that is very very sad, maxon being one of the best supporters for 3d graphics on Macs.
Overall, it looks like this Tiger is lots of bull and eyecandy. Nothing more. Sure it has some nice stuff, but come on. Even Microsoft is offering real 64 bit OS!!!!
Apple seemed to be on the vagon with 64 bit processing when presenting their g5. What happened? I tell you what. iPod happend. And thats a shame.
Secondly, you say that microsoft offers a real 64-bit OS. Yeah, right. They offered a 32-bit OS on already but it didn;t work the way it should.
It's like "yeah, windows have a search function also, so what's the fuss about spotlight?". The fuss about spotlight is that it rocks, and although it is another search function, it is faster, more reliable, and more elegant.
Same thing happens with 64-bit support and applications that use it. Microsoft is developing 64-bit OS. But what applications use that feature on the PC? 3? 4? And we are talking about proffessional programs only. So, apple has given the basic 64-bit support that these companies need to build an application to use the necessary features. And believe me, if Maxon and every other company wanted to make a program 64-bit on the mac, they would have done this already. The reasons why they haven't done this yet are other.
Anyway, Apple will fully implement 64-bit support when they really have to. When apple releases a product, the first thing they check is wether it works perfectly (apart from some minor bugs that will be fixed with future updates). When microsoft releases a product, it may not work at all! So before you start making assumptions, buy microsoft's 64-bit OS, and see how things happen. Then, when you will have completed your evaluation, apple will have released a fully 64-bit compatible OS that will WORK.