Mac OS X 10.4 Preview
- Article 27 of 53
- iCreate, April 2005
A major new version of the Mac OS will arrive any time now. Rob Buckley brings you the inside story on Apple's exciting new OS and finds out if Tiger will burn as brightly as its predecessor, Panther.
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Virtually all the really exciting things are under the surface and are for developers to incorporate into their applications. .Mac syncing will be fantastic once everyone updates their applications to take advantage of it. VoiceOver will require only minimal changes to most applications to make them – and the whole Mac - accessible to the blind once again. Automator will be capable of incredible things, once developers start bundling up some of their AppleScripts into easy to use packages. Core Image and Core Video will revolutionise a whole range of apps, including games, once developers start using them. Dashboard will be a must-have once third-party develop widgets for it. And Spotlight will be invaluable once plug-ins for proprietary file types are available.
So while Tiger may not grab you with the same intensity as Jaguar or Panther did when they first came out, it will be a first-rate platform for others to build on. Soon, any applications worth having will be Tiger-only and the real reason to upgrade will become clear. We would heartily recommend buying Tiger, maybe not immediately, but soon enough after release that any incompatible software will have been updated: the speed improvements and additional features should be justification enough. Jaguar users should certainly be the first in line, since they will get significant speed improvements with Tiger. But Panther users should also be in the queue.
Within six months of Tiger’s release, we’re pretty confident that it will have an overwhelming set of features from third-party software developers that will make Panther seem antiquated in comparison. And iCreate will be giving you the top tips that will help you get the most out of Tiger and the software designed to work with it.
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