We have had time to get used to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. How does it compare to the legendary Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger?
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- Unlike previous versions of Mac OS, Tiger lets you apply language preferences to Apple's applications individually. For example, you can set Mail's Autocorrect Spelling feature to French (for your.
- It is a conglomoration of NeXTSTEP, A/UX, and Mac OS 9. It is based off the unix kernel and provides compatibility with X11. It features a new theme called Aqua which replaces Platinum from Mac OS 8 and 9. It also adds the Dock as a place to launch applications (Not dissimilar to the underused Launcher) as well as some other features.
- Mac OS X Tiger was released as a PowerPC operating system, and the first Intel version was 10.4.4; Leopard was a Universal Binary from day one, streamlined and getting ready for Apple's impending decision to leave the PowerPC platform altogether. Visually, Leopard introduced some new handy features in the Finder.
It took a long time for Apple to get OS X right.
The uploader wrote 'To Burn on pc rename.toast file to.bin. Burn to disk Or you can get Toast for free through the various mac web sites.' That means Tiger is in the.toast file: Apple Mac OS X Tiger Install DVD.
Version 10.0 was a stab in the dark, and 10.1 made things a bit better. OS X 10.2 Jaguar was the first proper edition, but it still had a long way to go. Mac OS X 10.3 Panther was not the best edition, but it was definitely better than the previous ones.
When Apple brought out 10.4 Tiger, it was amazing. Tiger became the longest running version of OS X, and I was wondering how Apple was going to top it. Then 10.5 Leopard came out with its fancy new features and power hungry visuals – but under the hood, in an everyday situation, how does it compare?
I have run both Tiger and Leopard. I even ran both on the same machine to give it a fair comparison: an Intel iMac Core Duo 1.83 GHz with 2 GB of RAM.
As you might expect, Tiger (version 10.4.11) flew along. Universal Binary apps screamed along, with the smaller ones opening in one or two bounces of the Dock icon. PowerPC apps took a little longer to open, but we are comparing operating systems here, and not system architecture.
Moving to Leopard
After wearing in the shoes of Tiger for a few months, I wiped the hard drive and did a fresh install of Leopard. Things were not as rosy. The whole machine felt slower – boot time was slower, and loading time was a little slower. My iMac may not be top of the range (getting on three years old), but it is way above the minimum specifications for Leopard (which are an 867 MHz G4 with 512 MB of RAM), so I was a little disappointed.
With any new operating system, you expect some bugs. That's one reason for system updates. As I write this, we're already on the fifth major update for Leopard, but at the time I was testing Leopard, Apple had just released 10.5.3. The first few updates made a huge difference to stability, speed, and system performance.
We have to bear in mind that we had a grand total of eleven updates for Tiger, and some these made massive differences, especially the earlier ones.
Comparing the two operating systems at launch, I would have to say that Tiger was more bug-ridden than Leopard and broke more apps than Leopard did. I only had one application, the hard drive cloning tool SuperDuper, that expressly said Not for Leopard. Tiger, on the other hand, broke most of my apps on its launch.
Mac OS X Tiger was released as a PowerPC operating system, and the first Intel version was 10.4.4; Leopard was a Universal Binary from day one, streamlined and getting ready for Apple's impending decision to leave the PowerPC platform altogether.
Visually, Leopard introduced some new handy features in the Finder. Cover Flow is an obvious hit, as well as Stacks. While using my other machine, which has Tiger on it, I miss these features.
For me, Tiger is still the best. While Leopard has a lot of handy features, if your machine isn't way above minimum specs, you will notice a drop in performance.
Maybe this will be addressed in future system updates. Performance and speed have already been improved with the first five updates. Tiger still runs very well on an old G3. I am writing this on a Pismo PowerBook G3 (400 MHz G3, 1 GB RAM, 40 GB hard drive) – and it smokes.
If you have the machine to run Leopard well, I would suggest it – after cramming in as much as RAM as possible. However, if you're running anything lower than a 1 GHz G4, stick with Tiger.
Both operating systems are fabulous. There isn't much difference for the average user between the two except some fancy effects and a simpler way of connecting to other machines on your network.
I run both and love both of them. Being a lover of older Macs (G3s especially), Leopard is sometimes not an option, so Tiger has a special place in my heart. But for any machine capable of running it well, I'd install Leopard.
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In this time of minimal Apple news—hurry along now, Apple TV —you're bound to see a great deal of speculation about what the company has in the works. Even when the company does have some news to announce.
OK, so a maintenance update for OS X 10.4 doesn't exactly pack the same wallop as a set-top box that streams movies from your computer to your TV or an Apple-branded cell phone, but it's still a tangible product that people can download and install and put through its paces. But alongside the talk about OS X 10.4.9'ss improved raw camera file support, enhanced .Mac sync performance, iCal reminder fixes, and whatever else the update delivers, some Mac users are opting to focus on another element of the update—namely, the '.9' portion of the update.
The way the numerologists see it, Tiger hitting its ninth update since the 2005 release of OS X 10.4 must mean that Leopard is just around the corner. And if you look at the timing around the last couple of OS X 10.4 updates— 10.4.6 came out last April, 10.4.7 followed in June , and 10.4.8 appeared in September—you get… well, no discernible pattern, really. A fairly steady drumbeat of about three months between incremental updates followed by the six-month stretch between 10.4.8 and 10.4.9. Most people seem to think that puts OS X 10.5 in the May/June timeframe which would certainly be within the Spring 2007 window Apple mentioned when previewing Leopard last summer.
That, of course, assumes, two things—1) that Apple isn't perfectly capable of slapping on a .10 or a .9b or even a .May2007 at the end of any additional OS X 10.4 update; and 2) that Apple's going to hit its self-imposed Spring 2007 deadline for Leopard. Rooms (mclogicmaster69) mac os. I don't think there's anything precluding Apple from doing No. 1. As for No. 2, all public signs seem to suggest that OS X 10.5 is on schedule; indeed, this very Web site ran a story last week in which Apple chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer seemingly confirmed the Spring ship date for Leopard.
I certainly don't mean to raise any red flags, but someone could listen to the Webcast of that presentation —the relevant portion is around the 19, 20 minute mark—and come to the conclusion that wasn't what he said at all. Here's my transcript of the comment, with some non-germane stuff about Leopard's impact on Apple's sales excised from the question and answer.
A: Our next release of Mac OS X is called Leopard, and we've previously announced that it will ship this spring.
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Someone who likes to parse answers—and really, isn't that why the Internet exists?—might point that Oppenheimer merely repeated a previously announced ship date, and that any confirmation of a spring release is inferred rather than implied. But that's a minor point. The issue before us today: Does the arrival of OS X 10.4.9 mean that Leopard is lurking just over the horizon? And if it does, when will Leopard leap?
A: Our next release of Mac OS X is called Leopard, and we've previously announced that it will ship this spring.
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Someone who likes to parse answers—and really, isn't that why the Internet exists?—might point that Oppenheimer merely repeated a previously announced ship date, and that any confirmation of a spring release is inferred rather than implied. But that's a minor point. The issue before us today: Does the arrival of OS X 10.4.9 mean that Leopard is lurking just over the horizon? And if it does, when will Leopard leap?
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I'll say that yes—this is the last update of Tiger that we'll see prior to OS X 10.5's release. As to when that will happen, I'm already on the record as picking June, so I'll stick with that. I have no information to support that guess other than the belief that if I turn out to be wrong at least I can argue that I was consistent.
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I welcome your guesses—consistent or otherwise—in the forum thread below.
