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Hi,
Most of my experience with OS X is with 10.3 (Panther) until I got my PowerBook 12" a couple of weeks back which had/s Tiger. However it has had to go in for repair since the hard drive is being odd, but also Tiger was causing some odd freeze ups and I have never had Panther do that on me. On the odd occasion System 7.1 and 7.5.3 would, OS 8.0 would do it but 8.1 was as stable as System 7. In other words, I used to Macs being ever so reliable.
Don't get me wrong I love 10.4; the dashboard and spotlight alone make it worthwhile, as well as the Core Image technologies will be useful for the future, and there are probably other things like the RSS feeds in Safari and new version of Mail that I definitely appreciate. However, Tiger has been problematic for me.
Today I had a customer who had an eMac and for two years it has not crashed once, they installed tiger yesterday all fine, and then it froze up. And will no longer boot I gave them a number of possible fixes but to no avail. They used Panther before, and I think Jaguar too.
Earlier on this week another customer who also loves Tiger has found it crashes more on his G5 iMac than it did with Panther.
I'm wondering if there are some things about Tiger that are really not playing ball right on some machines, notably today's customer and myself have classic environment installed.
How have others found the general stability of Tiger vs. Panther and Jaguar?
At any rate, what does suck is that this is being typed on a Dell; and how do I miss my PowerBook, how do I miss having a Mac, and dang I am looking forward to work tomorrow when I get back in front of my eMac I love so much (with Panther) :flower:
You never realise how much you love something until you haven't got it eh!
However it could just be a bad HD, if they are going to go they tend to fail within the first 2-3 weeks.
Any insights would be gratefully received.
Vicky
Most of my experience with OS X is with 10.3 (Panther) until I got my PowerBook 12" a couple of weeks back which had/s Tiger. However it has had to go in for repair since the hard drive is being odd, but also Tiger was causing some odd freeze ups and I have never had Panther do that on me. On the odd occasion System 7.1 and 7.5.3 would, OS 8.0 would do it but 8.1 was as stable as System 7. In other words, I used to Macs being ever so reliable.
Don't get me wrong I love 10.4; the dashboard and spotlight alone make it worthwhile, as well as the Core Image technologies will be useful for the future, and there are probably other things like the RSS feeds in Safari and new version of Mail that I definitely appreciate. However, Tiger has been problematic for me.
Today I had a customer who had an eMac and for two years it has not crashed once, they installed tiger yesterday all fine, and then it froze up. And will no longer boot I gave them a number of possible fixes but to no avail. They used Panther before, and I think Jaguar too.
Earlier on this week another customer who also loves Tiger has found it crashes more on his G5 iMac than it did with Panther.
I'm wondering if there are some things about Tiger that are really not playing ball right on some machines, notably today's customer and myself have classic environment installed.
How have others found the general stability of Tiger vs. Panther and Jaguar?
At any rate, what does suck is that this is being typed on a Dell; and how do I miss my PowerBook, how do I miss having a Mac, and dang I am looking forward to work tomorrow when I get back in front of my eMac I love so much (with Panther) :flower:
You never realise how much you love something until you haven't got it eh!
However it could just be a bad HD, if they are going to go they tend to fail within the first 2-3 weeks.
Any insights would be gratefully received.
Vicky