Review: Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
- Article 31 of 53
- iCreate, June 2005
Does Tiger really roar or is it just a kitten? We put Tiger through its paces to find out if it can live up to all the hype and hysteria.
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Secondly, probably all of Apple’s efforts have gone into polishing Tiger’s engine. Any developer looking through the tech list of new features in Tiger practically has a religious experience when he or she realises just how many insanely great things they can include in their Mac programs with little or no effort because they’re now built into Tiger. The “Core” set of toolboxes – Core Image, Core Video, Core Audio and Core Data – for example, stomp all over the opposition in terms of features, with just Core Image providing practically a complete set of Photoshop filters to anyone who just fancies writing a word processor say.
For the end-user therefore, our message is “wait, but you will be excited”. Upgrade now if you’d like to give your Mac a speed boost or Spotlight looks too good to miss out on. But as soon as the first set of bug fixes come out and applications arrive to take advantage of Tiger’s exciting new features, buy, buy, buy!
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