Day 2 on Tiger. The upgrade went smoothly, and indexing my hard disk for Spotlight only took a couple hours (I just let it go when I went to sleep).
First impression: The OS is 15% faster. Safari’s more responsive, moving windows, and everything else seems a lot smoother.
I found Spotlight to be extremely useful for email, but I’m not using it for much, other than that. I think it’ll get more useful as I get used to it. I’m still reliant on Quicksilver for apps, and have moved SL to option-space with QS back to command-space.
Dashboard apps are neat, and will be more useful as people write more widgets. I’ll build one this weekend.
My dad called me from the office to ask what the command to get VoiceOver working was, on my mom’s iMac. I’m looking forward to walking him through using a Mac, for the first time.
Oh, the RSS Screen Saver is bad ass.
Overall, I think it’s good, and worth the money for the speed boost alone. As long as I don’t crush my laptop, I’m going squeeze at least one more year of use from my 1 Ghz TiBook (on the way to a G5!).
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