Tiger: reactions, first impressions.

[Carlo]

Tiger's launching today!
Be one of the first to tell everyone about your initial experience with OS 10.4.
Post it here.

[Lester]

I hate that it's going on sale at 6 pm because I'm still at work at that time! I'll have to get it over the weekend. That would have to be my initial impression =)

[mistermoya]

Well here's Walt Mossberg's review of Tiger.

[the_butcher]

will be getting Tiger pretty soon. that dashing dashboard DID it for me!

[Carlo]

- Screen captures (Command+ Shift+3 or 4) are no longer .pdfs but .pngs.
-There are new user interface sound effects(!)

-Mail.app has a slideshow (with an option to add directly to iPhoto) for picture attachments
-Preview's annotation tool for .pdfs
-iChat now has "Current iTunes Track" in the status bar without the help of any 3rd party app.

[Kelvin]

Finder's smart folders is something that once you use you can't live without

[Kenneth]

Stuffit Expander is no longer bundled. If you want to open .sit or .bin you'll have to download the free version.

Classic support is gone. Goodbye OS 9.

Spotlight is nice, but when quickly launching apps, Launchbar is still better.

[Gomi]

how much are they selling 10.4 here? is it available na in apple center?

[danieldy]

Originally posted by Kenneth
Spotlight is nice, but when quickly launching apps, Launchbar is still better.

So true. I now use a combination of the two, activating launchbar with command-space and spotlight with option-space.

Launchbar launches applications and various prefs while spotlight does everything else.

[directX]

Got one this afternoon. Unfortunately I was so busy and only found the time to back-up now. Once I am done - will be giving you feedback.

Edit:
Just finished installing it and doing some initial configurations. I have yet to install any additional software. However, you can see some initial impressions here.