[X4U] Re: Why Tiger

[George Harvey]

I like many things about it better than Jaguar. It is faster for most  
of my work. It is better for Mariner Write, GraphicConverter,  
Ultralingua, Mellel and OmniGraffle, for example. Safari now works  
better than most other browsers except for OmniWeb which is far the  
best, but which needs updating because it cannot handle things such  
as downloads from PubMed properly.

However, Spotlight cannot find files that I am sure that I have. For  
those, I had to go back to Panther and do the older find, which  
worked fast and efficiently. The only way to get practically instant  
finding among  millions of files is by use of an indexed system such  
as is used for Spotlight. Spotlight can be very fast sometimes if I  
paste the search word in the find-window. If I am impatient, and  
don't want to spend the time to type and paste, I habitually try  
command + F and Spotlight begins instantly to search everywhere. Even  
though I type as fast as I can, it usually does this on the first  
character I type. Everything then has to wait until Spotlight  
discovers the second character, then wait until it discovers the  
third one and so on. EasyFind is a much better solution if I know  
what folder or drive contains what I want. Using the Spotlight icon  
works better sometimes, but Spotlight starts looking instantly  
without knowing what I am after, and when I finish typing in the  
search string it finds far too many things I don't want. For example,  
looking up casting retrieves Kai Lung's Golden Hours at the topmost  
hit which then superseded by Wired eBay. Spotlight is the main  
drawback in Tiger. Of course programs that are not kept up to date  
often have their own problems.

On the whole, Tiger is well worth the cost and time because of its  
speed and the way it works with the latest version of QuickTime Pro.  
Sherlock works quite a bit faster also, which makes it more useful. I  
have Jaguar on my main hard drive, but I use Tiger, which is on a  
FireWire drive much more often, especially for e-mail, writing long  
documents, and for Web searches.

George Harvey


On May 25, 2005, Wayne Clodfelter wrote:

> I liked Jaguar, and I like Panther better than Jaguar. Does any Tiger
> user like it better than they liked Panther? Why?