Tiger - Almost here!

Written by Philip Roy | 27 April 2005
Posted in Apple

Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger" will go on sale Friday, April 29, at 6:00 p.m. during special events at Apple Authorised Resellers.

Tiger has more than 200 new features and innovations including Spotlight, a revolutionary desktop search technology that lets users instantly find anything stored on their Mac, including documents, emails, contacts and images; and Dashboard, a new way to quickly access important information like weather forecasts and stock quotes, using a dazzling new class of applications called widgets.

 

From a rock-solid, developer-friendly UNIX foundation to grid computing, powerful technologies drive Mac OS X Tiger. Beneath the easy-to-use interface and rich graphics of Mac OS X lies Darwin, an open source, UNIX-based foundation built on such technologies as mach and FreeBSD. With Tiger come significant enhancements to this UNIX foundation, including improvements to dual-processor support for increased performance when reading and writing files to disk and when using Mac OS X with NFS file servers.

With the release of Mac OS X Tiger, Apple delivers the astounding power of 64-bit computing to the Mac. You can now build and run a new generation of 64-bit applications that address up to four billion times as much memory as 32-bit applications.

Mac OS X Tiger introduces a breakthrough image-processing technology known as Core Image that allows developers to harness the power of today's advanced video cards.

Tiger also features QuickTime 7 with H.264, the industry-standard, ultra-efficient, fully scalable video codec that delivers pristine video quality at remarkably low data rates for everything from 3G for mobile phones to high definition DVD. Since H.264 is built into the QuickTime architecture in Tiger, QuickTime-based applications like iChat AV and Final Cut Pro HD also take full advantage of this advanced video codec.

Time Magazine features an excellent article that takes you through the features of the superb new operating system and comments....

"Though they only constitute one out of every 33 computer owners, Mac users have long held a reputation for acting smugly superior to their Windows brethren. And with the release next week of Apple's latest operating system software, Tiger ($129), they'll have good reason. Tiger is the fourth and easily the most significant upgrade to Mac OS X (following Puma, Jaguar and Panther). Its main selling point, a desktop search application called Spotlight, is similar to a feature Microsoft is touting in its next Windows release, Longhorn??which won't be out for at least another year. And that's not all. Here's what you get if you put a Tiger in your digital tank:"


The article continues at the Time Magazine site....
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1052512,00.html

Those in the following fields may enjoy reading about the advantages of using Tiger....

More details can be found at....
http://www.apple.co.nz/macosx/

If you purchased a new Mac on or after April 12 that didn't include Tiger, you can upgrade for just the cost of the media.
http://www.apple.com.au/macosx/uptodate/

 

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