[redoid]

http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/macosx_tiger.asp

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

You're a week late

[RyanG3]

Originally Posted by redoid

http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/macosx_tiger.asp

WARNING!

This is not a review but a bunch of made up crap by a frightened microsoft henchman.

This idiot doesn't even have Tiger to review.

Do not go to the link and give this dork a click.

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

Originally Posted by RyanG3

WARNING!

This is not a review but a bunch of made up crap by a frightened microsoft henchman.

This idiot doesn't even have Tiger to review.

Do not go to the link and give this dork a click.

Actually the review was pretty honest and true.

[redoid]

Originally Posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker

You're a week late

oops sorry, didnt know it was that old!

[RonnieoftheRose]

It's too generic for a real review. No benchmarks or hands on use at all. No mention of how Tiger boots in 18 seconds on a 1Ghz G4. No mention of across the line speed increases and streamlining. No mention of security improvements such as Stealth Mode. No mention of how slow XP is in comparison. No mention of how Longhorn has no more to offer yet is more than a year away and has minimum requirements three times higher than Tiger.

[OreoCookie]

timeline

[TheIceMan]

I agree with Skywalker], it doesn't sound like the author was trashing Tiger. I'm not looking for benchmarks. He does highlight some of the great things about Tiger. Just because it's a Windows site doesn't automatically make him this terrible person who hates Macs. Let's not be so overly zealous in our defense of our Macs. I think the article is quite fair.

[eggman]

What a laugh riot!

"Though it is marketed by Apple as a major release, Tiger is in fact a minor upgrade with few major new features, more akin to what we'd call a service pack in the Windows world"

Compare and contrast what this same genius had to say about the release of Windows '98:

So, after all this time, one has to wonder what the point is. I mean, Windows 98 is only a point release, and yet it took almost two years to get it to market. It's comparable to the Windows 3.0-to-3.1 upgrade in one sense, and yet as the final rendition of the Windows 9x line, you must understand that this is the ultimate Windows. It's the best it's ever going to be, and yes, that's quite good.

Not to mention that he doesn't seem to know about Expos�'s hot corners.

So... overheated hyperbole about Windows... and understated faint praise for Tiger.

Fair and Balanced reporting.

[RonnieoftheRose]

Originally Posted by eggman

What a laugh riot!



Compare and contrast what this same genius had to say about the release of Windows '98:

Thurrot about Windows 98 "...you must understand that this is the ultimate Windows. It's the best it's ever going to be, and yes, that's quite good."

[RyanG3]

Originally Posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker

Actually the review was pretty honest and true.

For an ignorant moron.

[jock]

Just a question, given the superb piece of journalism, is the reviewer related to that great guy Rob Enderle?

[Gee4orce]

Actually, from my experience of Tiger so far, I'd say that review was pretty close to the mark. I"ve found a few things with Tiger that I"m not totally happy with (fast user switching is no longer 'fast', any kind of context switching (eg between applications) seems to take longer, smart Finder folders are slooooow to update a lot of the time, Automator isn't quite as easy to use as you would think, etc, etc.). But then again, nobody would believe me until they installed their own copy.

I'm sure 10.5.1 will be great though

[Kerrigan]

The only major things he doesn't like about Tiger are the dock, and dashboard. That's fair enough, because those are the two clumsiest components of the UI. Everything else he seemed to like: Spotlight, Mail, Safari, etc. So he didn't say that Tiger was going to change his life, so what?

[RonnieoftheRose]

The point is that it is a fake review that anyone can come up with after visiting apple.com. It's too sparse and simplistic and the degenerate goes as far as saying that Tiger is finally catching up with Windows XP.

[Kerrigan]

I doubt the average user of WinSuperSite wants an in depth, nuanced review of 10.4 any more than a Mac site would want a detailed review of XP SP2.

[pliny]

New threads that are just a link with not even a brief comment about what the heck it is really suck. especially since this is a review that isn't even a review. Lame all around.

[RonnieoftheRose]

Originally Posted by Kerrigan

I doubt the average user of WinSuperSite wants an in depth, nuanced review of 10.4 any more than a Mac site would want a detailed review of XP SP2.

Then send him an Email asking for how he got his copy of Tiger and if it was legit how did he break NDA.

He claims to have used OSX since 2001, has run every version of OSX since, yet the guy couldn't take one single capture of his desktop. Every image link goes back to Apple.

[TETENAL]

Some interesting reads about Tiger can be found at http://www.internet-nexus.com/

[osxisfun]

Originally Posted by TETENAL

Some interesting reads about Tiger can be found at http://www.internet-nexus.com/

warning: site is paul thurott's

[Kerrigan]

Originally Posted by RonnieoftheRose

Then send him an Email asking for how he got his copy of Tiger and if it was legit how did he break NDA.

Now that is suspicious. He probably just downloaded it from bittorrent.

[RonnieoftheRose]

Originally Posted by Kerrigan

Now that is suspicious. He probably just downloaded it from bittorrent.

Then Apple have a case to sue him for either 1. Fake reviews 2. Breaking NDA or 3. Downloading pirated software.

[Agent69]

Originally Posted by jock

Just a question, given the superb piece of journalism, is the reviewer related to that great guy Rob Enderle?

Enderle is the ultimate asshat.

[Kerrigan]

Worse than Dvorak?

[OreoCookie]

I'll close this one. There's another thread about this in the Lounge.