Editorial Reviews:
Product Description Mac OS X Tiger, Version 10.4 From Amazon.com Product Description Apple's long awaited new operating system brings more than 200 new features to Mac users. Technically speaking, Tiger boasts an open source core, 64-bit system, and support for the High Definition H.264 video codec. But, every user will enjoy the highlights of this new release: a new search tool, cool new mini applications, real-time RSS feeds in the browser, improved email, amped up audio and visual conferencing, parental controls, automation of tedious, repetitive tasks, and the list goes on. OS-Level Search: Spotlight Handled by Tiger's search technology, Spotlight, users may search across documents, images, movies, music, PDFs, email, calendar events, and system preferences with one keyword. Spotlight reviews text content, filenames, and keywords (metadata) applied by users and automatically stored by files to return search results. Results are fast and smart, providing previews of returned files and the ability to filter them by kind, date, people, and location. | | | Spotlight Search Return |
More Robust Conferencing: iChat AV iChat AV updates the Panther version with various new features. Enjoy three-dimensional, multi-participant video meetings with better resolution and compression. Conduct audio conferences with up to 10 members utilizing a graphical panel with sound meters for each speaker that indicate who is speaking. Purchase and run your own Tiger server and conduct instant messaging behind your firewall. | iChat Audio Conferencing | iChat Video Conferencing
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Parental Controls | Set computer profiles for children using the aptly named Parental Controls and limit their access to system controls, documents, printers, burners, applications, email, chat, and the Web. With multiple profiles, parents can set varying levels of access for each child. Even downloaded or emailed applications are subject to parental approval first. |
Drop and Drag Tool Panels: Dashboard Pull in mini applications from a menu, named the Dashboard, to complete frequent tasks, like tracking flights and stocks or looking up words in the dictionary. Add and rearrange these panels, called "widgets," on your desktop as you choose, and hide or show them with the click of a button. Some other widgets include a calendar, calculator, weather report, yellow pages, language translator and unit converter. | Desktop with Dashboard Widgets | Language Translator Widget | Stock Tracking Widget |
Automated Repetitive Tasks: Automator Choose pre-programmed "actions" from a library and automate tedious tasks when they have to be done in bulk, like editing images for slideshows and creating birthdays in the address book. There are hundreds in the can and sure to be more as third-party vendors create and make them available. | Automation of Image Editing Task with Automator |
Real-time Browser: Safari
Quickly view news headlines and article summaries from around the world with Tiger's browser, Safari . Take advantage of RSS protocols to get the latest news updates automatically.
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Improved Mail
| Tiger's email program, Mail, uses Spotlight to manage your mail. Find messages easily and let Mail automatically organize your messages as they come into the box. New photo resizing, archiving, and slideshow options enhance your ability to share and enjoy pictures via email. |
Centralized Computer Sync: .Mac Sync Use .Mac to sync all your Mac computers, wherever they are. .Mac Sync allows you to conveniently sync your Safari bookmarks, iCal appointments, Address Book contacts, passwords, and Mail settings for multiple Mac computers over the Internet.
| Automation of Image Editing Task with Automator |
VoiceOver
| Apple's spoken interface technology, VoiceOver, gives people with visual and learning disabilities equal access to Mac. | Enhanced QuickTime 7
| Featuring the new standards-based H.264 video codec, QuickTime 7 brings you incredible video quality with lower data rates and smoother playback. |
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Customer Reviews
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Aug 16, 2023 When I bought it I supposed was last edition ...but there was already two updated ( 10.4.2). Very good item but I believe the price is too high for what it really worth.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Tiger on an eMac, Aug 11, 2023 Yup, the reviews are true: Tiger sped up our eMac (albeit with sme extra RAM thrown in for extra insurance). We also use Apple's Airport Extreme and suddenly, the connection is moving better. Spotlight will find just about anything on your drive (be warned if your family searches for your hidden porn). Widgets are fun: I've added a widget, those free-floating little thingies on your desktop that you can pull down with a click, that tells me best gas prices locally (of SOME stations) and another that searches for lyrics of iTunes tunes (found some; others ain't there).
I had heard a lot of back-and-forth about whether it was "worth it" or "stable" and it is, on both accounts.
BAD!!! Norton's AntiVirus and Norton Firewall, leftovers from my OS X.2.4 are incompatible with Tiger; no loss, lemme tell ya, unless you really bought the lousy things and now have nothin' for your money.
Quark Xpress, Adobe's Photoshop and a few other major apps run just; the Tiger changes are pretty invisible... and take it from an old Mac user since the days of OS 6 or before: buy it!
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Best Yet!!!!, Aug 9, 2023 I have a IMac G4 that had 10.1 on it!!! I also have a IBook G4 with 10.3...Tiger is the best move yet!!!! I love everything about it from the new safari to the wigets!!! Def. a must have for any Apple user!!!
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Mac OS X 10.4 is awesome, Aug 9, 2023 I heard horror stories about the difficulty in setting up the new Tiger which couldn't be further from the truth. Tiger installed easily over my old OS Nine with no difficulty. It was also easy to navigate and learn new features. It is way overpriced but a good product.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
A little faster; easy to install, Aug 7, 2023 This was easy enough to install that my 10 year old was able to do it. We had to do the complete reinstall because our previous Mac OS X version was too old to be upgraded. I think it performs better than that Mac OS version.
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