[fisherKing]

and not.

more than anything else, i want my APPS to run well; fast, efficient. stable.
seems pretty good in panther...

some of the new features in tiger look good; some (to me) a bit eye-candy.
not to say that the widgets (which will replace some shareware apps) aren't nice...
but i hope to get back to work within about 3 days of installing. don't want to be distracted from the real stuff.

it's the under-the-hood stuff i'm craving.

faster? leaner?? (maybe not, with all the "new' features). stable?

10.3 for me, kicked 10.2's ass.

so, will be interesting to see the hysterical threads here in a few weeks (i'm sure some of them will be mine)

[pat++]

From what I've been told, 10.4 is much faster than 10.3. This is enough for me to upgrade
The nice thing with Apple is that even if you don't upgrade your hardware, it feels like you have upgraded your machine because each OS X release so far has been faster than the previous one (particularly 10.3).

[frankiec]

Originally posted by fisherKing:
but i hope to get back to work within about 3 days of installing. don't want to be distracted from the real stuff.

Then don't use the new stuff.

Originally posted by fisherKing:
faster? leaner?? (maybe not, with all the "new' features). stable?

Um, Tiger is well-known to be faster than Panther.

Originally posted by fisherKing:
so, will be interesting to see the hysterical threads here in a few weeks (i'm sure some of them will be mine)

They've already begun. It's the same people that are still complaining about getting laid-off from their coal-mining and buggy carriage jobs.

[CaptainHaddock]

Here's what I'm looking forward to:

� Faster performance, especially with Quartz and widget responsiveness
� Smart folders - this will really make me efficient in my design work!
� Safari 2.0
� Improved font handling (and I sure hope Tiger has better Opentype support)
� Improved non-Latin language support (because I'm a linguaphile)
� New eye candy
� All the cool new applications that will take advantage of CoreImage and CoreVideo

Now, the upgrade had better go flawlessly, or I'm going to be really annoyed!