So whats wrong with Tiger

G'day Mac zealots,

I'm a switcher. I have purchased my first Mac and love it. I have checked the threads and cant find any real reason why I should update to the new Leopard operating system! Is it that much better? Do I need it? What will it do that the OS I am using now will not do? Money is not a factor!(well maybe a bit) I have always worked on the principle; " If it aint broke dont fix it.
All assistance accepted gracefully.

Dfordean
OZ Man
and loving it

Well, one of the nice features of Leopard is Boot Camp. It allows you to dual-boot a Windows environment. There's also a backup utility called Time Machine. Check out all the features of Leopard here. If in the end you decide there's really nothing you need, then why make the switch?

So far from what I've read the main differences are GUI related. Things like the Vista-like transparent windows and the new look to the Dock. For now, the differences will be cosmetic. After some time, we will start to see more Leopard only versions of software. Right now, I run Panther and some programs (Like Safari or OpenOffice) won't allow me to run the latest versions and the same will be true at some point for Tiger.

Can you cut and paste in Leopard? That's the only thing I hate about OS X.

If you want to move a file, you need to drag it. Sometimes this takes too long and is hard to manuever when you have many applications running at the same time.

for the time being there is no real reason you need to update to leopard. as you can see from another post, there is still quite a lot of people still using panther (10.3). most people are just going to wait for a couple updates and see what happens. but tiger should work for most people just fine for the time being.

Tiger is a great OS...I am sure Leopard will be that much better and I am anxiously awaiting mine on the 26th...but if you are happy with Tiger than stick with it for now. You can always go to a store that carries MACS and test drive the Leopard to see if you like it...Would your mac be a new one bought after Oct 1st?....If so you can get Leopard for $9.95

The finder in Tiger sucks. Leopard is miles better.

Have a look at Apple's site to see if you like the new features or not. It's up to you whether to get it, but you will need to be on it in the next 2 years as Tiger becomes obsolete.

I wouldn't say it's an imperative upgrade. But Apple boosts there are 300 new features included with the new OS. Check out the link posted above for more information.

verbatim210 said:

Can you cut and paste in Leopard? That's the only thing I hate about OS X.

If you want to move a file, you need to drag it. Sometimes this takes too long and is hard to manuever when you have many applications running at the same time.

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I understand your frustration. But instead of cut & paste, you can copy & paste: cmd + c , cmd + v (respectively).

verbatim210 said:

Can you cut and paste in Leopard? That's the only thing I hate about OS X.

If you want to move a file, you need to drag it. Sometimes this takes too long and is hard to manuever when you have many applications running at the same time.

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You can cut and paste files in Tiger too. Check out FileCutter.

FYI, Leopard is not all that you see in the features list. The speed improvements are amazing. Spotlight searches are quicksilver like...instant. Plus you can do searching over networks.

I think it has way too many features that make upgrading to leopard a no brainer. Sure, it feels like all that leopard has is a transparent menubar and coverflow in finder, but it goes deeper than that...

I wouldn't go as far as to say there is anything wrong per se with Tiger, but there are improvements that many would like to see (spotlight/finder as examples). I think only the individual can decide whether or not it's worth the upgrade for themselves personally.

Spaces.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/spaces.html

I want multiple desktops as I do when working in Linux (which I'm doing at the moment). I have 8 virtual desktops available, four of which I'm using at the moment. With Spaces, my MacBook will have added flexibility to do the things I want to do. ^_^

To me the biggest thing is that they updated all the libraries to be fully 64 bit (unlike tiger which is only partially 64 bit) and they added better support for dual core/dual processors. While these updates are not visible at all to the user, you will notice the change when applications begin to take advantage of this and everything will run much much faster.

for cut and paste can't u just click the apple and c key to copy and then the apple and v key to paste? Am I missing something here?

hondagus87 said:

for cut and paste can't u just click the apple and c key to copy and then the apple and v key to paste? Am I missing something here?

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cut and paste as in: Ctrl+X and Ctrl+V in Windows.

hondagus87 said:

for cut and paste can't u just click the apple and c key to copy and then the apple and v key to paste? Am I missing something here?

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He's talking about cutting and pasting files as you can in Windows. However, FileCutter (see link in my previous post in this thread) adds this capability to Tiger.

cover flow in leopard in finder looks amazingly gorgeous...
if it was a new windows os i'd say we all should do wait and see..but it is macintosh,so i dont see a reason except if like it so much now u should use it for a while more to upgrade..

MACGIRL34 said:

Tiger is a great OS...I am sure Leopard will be that much better and I am anxiously awaiting mine on the 26th...but if you are happy with Tiger than stick with it for now. You can always go to a store that carries MACS and test drive the Leopard to see if you like it...Would your mac be a new one bought after Oct 1st?....If so you can get Leopard for $9.95

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I bought my MBP after 10/1/07. How do I get Leopard for $9.95?

abgopm said:

I bought my MBP after 10/1/07. How do I get Leopard for $9.95?

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http://www.apple.com/macosx/uptodate/

What a great forum. Thanks to all who commented! I'll probably stick with Tiger for a while and then swap....Thanks again.
Dean