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View Poll Results: What Mac OS are you using?
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10.4 105 votes (81.40%)
10.3 21 votes (16.28%)
10.2 2 votes (1.55%)
10.1 or 10.0 0 votes (0%)
OS9 or earlier 1 votes (0.78%)
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What Mac OS are you using?
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JHromadka
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Jun 21, 2005, 10:07 AM
 
I was looking at our website's browser stats and was impressed with how many people are using the Tiger version of Safari (over 65%). Now that Tiger's been out a few months, have you upgraded or are you still on an older version of the OS?

What version of Mac OS are you running on your primary Mac?
     
ShotgunEd
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Jun 21, 2005, 10:15 AM
 
10.3.9 on iBook. (General Everyday)
10.3.9 on G4 MDD. (Work)
10.3.9 on Pismo. (Work on the Move)
10.3.9 on iBook2 (For other people in the house)

I have the Tiger family pack sitting here, I'm not installing it until I'm sure I can upgrade smoothly.

Which is strange, usually I upgrade my iBooks straight away and wait a bit before touching the G4 but this time I think I might wait for 10.4.2 or even 10.4.3 for the bugs that i reckon will affect me get fixed. Besides, I can wait for spotlight and dashboard and am happy with the performance I have got at the moment.
     
NeilCharter
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Jun 21, 2005, 10:57 AM
 
Ed, put that shutgun down and vote with your mouse. At the moment all 7 votes are for 10.4!

FWIW - I can't think of any bugs in 10.4 that would stop me using 10.4. But then I have to use Windoze at work and you may have specific apps that have not been updated for 10.4.

The speed improvement was enough of a reason to upgrade.
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Randman
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Jun 21, 2005, 11:06 AM
 
10.4.1 on my PB17 and the Mac mini.

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discotronic
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Jun 21, 2005, 11:22 AM
 
Tiger on my PowerMac and Panther on my Clamshell iBook 300MHz.

I don't think my iBook will ever go beyond Panther even if I use XPostFacto. Tiger, from what I hear, will take up too many resources on my model iBook.

Tiger has been running great without any real issues up to this point. There are a couple apps that I am waiting for an update on because they won't run on Tiger. I've been thinking about installing Panther on my second HD so I can run them again.
     
DeeKat
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Jun 21, 2005, 02:53 PM
 
i'm still using 10.3.9 and i'm really happy with it. I might upgrade to 10.4 but so far I dont see why I would. Spotlight is very nice but I dont need it (I know where everything is on my HD). Dashboard is also preatty cool but as a Canadian all the cool widget aren't localized yet ( so no traffic cam for Montreal, no subway schedule, nothing local). The only reason left would be the OS's speed. But is it worth it? For those who did upgrade: Is Tiger really that much faster than Panther because it seems to me that it might be the placebo effet.
     
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Jun 21, 2005, 03:17 PM
 
Originally Posted by DeeKat
For those who did upgrade: Is Tiger really that much faster than Panther because it seems to me that it might be the placebo effet.
Tiger isn't faster, it's the same. I'm on a Ti867 with 1GB of RAM. Clean install. Now if Quartz Extreme 2 or whatever it is called would actually work then yes you would probably see a speedup.

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Randman
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Jun 21, 2005, 03:22 PM
 
Safari is much faster. Other than needing to reinstall Photoshop 2, Tiger has also been stable. 4.0 was more stable than 3.9.

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JHromadka  (op)
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Jun 21, 2005, 06:27 PM
 
10.4 Client on my PowerBook, 10.4 Server on my mini, and 10.3 on an old iMac.
     
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Jun 24, 2005, 01:50 PM
 
After a very smooth archive and install on my work (mainly graphic design and sql/web application development), I rushed home(music recording) and did the same. Little did I know that I'd have to reinstall all my AU/VSTs! Arrr!
     
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Jun 24, 2005, 03:20 PM
 
10.4.1 of cource!
     
JHromadka  (op)
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Jun 24, 2005, 03:50 PM
 
Ok, who's the laggard?
     
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Jun 24, 2005, 04:46 PM
 
10.4.1
- DP 1.25 G4 (FW800)
- iMac Rev.D 333

10.3.9
- iBook 300
- iBook 800

9.1
- Performa 6116CD
     
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Jun 24, 2005, 06:03 PM
 
According to the result of poll, lots people switch to tiger
There were once four people named Everybody, Somebody, Nobody and Anybody. Somebody had to do a job, but Nobody wanted to do it. Nobody could see that Anybody could do it, and Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody's job. Nobody ended up doing it, and it so happened that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.
     
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Jun 24, 2005, 07:08 PM
 
My iBook G3 has 10.2.4 heh, my iMac before the HDD died had 10.4.1 now I am just waiting until I can go to get it fixed.
     
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Jun 24, 2005, 10:33 PM
 
Originally Posted by Kenneth
10.4.1
- DP 1.25 G4 (FW800)
- iMac Rev.D 333

10.3.9
- iBook 300
- iBook 800

9.1
- Performa 6116CD
How'd you get Tiger running on a 333Mhz iMac? It doesn't have internal Firewire...
     
doucy2
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Jun 24, 2005, 11:52 PM
 
10.3 is the bomb
ibook g3 800 10.3.9
ibook g3 700 10.3.9
emac g4 1.25 10.3.9

go panther
     
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Jun 24, 2005, 11:56 PM
 
I personally like 8.6... I call it Wombat...
     
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Jun 25, 2005, 12:45 AM
 
10.4
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Jun 25, 2005, 12:45 AM
 
Mac OS X DP4
     
   
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