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Rating:  106 reviews
Sales Rank: 307
Format: Dvd-rom
Platform: Macintosh
Media: DVD-ROM
Operating System: Macintosh
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 10 x 5 x 3
MPN: 1052006
Model: M9639Z/A
UPC: 718908376928
EAN: 0718908376928
ASIN: B0002G71T0
Release Date: April 29, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Revolutionary Spotlight technology that lets you search every corner of your Mac instantly: files, emails, contacts, images, movies, calendars and applications. Even save results as Smart Folders that update automatically. | | • | A set of nifty, beautifully designed mini-applications called widgets for checking stocks and weather, looking up phone numbers, performing calculations, finding dictionary definitions and more — with one click right from your personal Dashboard. | | • | A personal assistant for automating all of your time-consuming, repetitive manual tasks efficiently and effortlessly. It's simple to create custom Workflows just by dragging items, pointing and clicking. | | • | Safari RSS technology that delivers the latest news, information and articles from thousands of web sites in one simple-to-read, searchable article list right to your Mac. | | • | The latest iChat AV delivering multi-way video and audio conferencing with true-to-life picture and sound quality. |
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Product Description
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger will change the way you think about your Mac. It offers more than 200 new features to make controlling your personal information, applications and usage more easily than ever. Find, manage and enjoy the things you care about more effectively -- with the most advanced operating system yet released. Accelerate your research with the powerful new development tools. Work with integrated support for critical audio functions for better music at home. While you're doing both ofthese, you can also do just about everything else, from checking the weather to managing e-mail. Prepare to be amazed at how far operating systems have come. Link up all your Macs and share Safari bookmarks, address book contacts, mail settings and more through. mac Sync VoiceOver gives users with disabilities equal access to the power and simplicity of the Mac 64-bit UNIX based operating system with advanced distributed computing facilities and collaborative tools Also includes broader parental controls for children, better Mail organizing and archiving options, iChat AV and other tools for research, audio/video, design, photography and small business management
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
| | 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.
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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: Read 101 more reviews...
 Okay. Wow. April 28, 2005
Maine Writer (Maine, USA)
172 out of 184 found this review helpful
(1) You will notice a speed increase on any Mac that fits the specs. Boot time is sliced almost in half on my dual processor G5, and by a third on an older G4 tower. They've obviously put a lot of effort into optimizing the OS code and bringing a new level of "snappiness" to OS X's already quick performance. In my opinion, the speed improvement is reason alone to get Tiger ... it's that impressive.
(2) As with other OS X upgrades, I'd suggest a fresh install, wiping the hard drive completely (backing up your stuff, of course, first!), not an upgrade install or "clean" install. I've tried both and, frankly, the fresh install on a pristine hard drive has a better "feel" to it and, if experience is any guide, will reduce problems down the line.
(3) Spotlight is everything it's claimed to be. However ... your computer may seem to be acting oddly for the first hour or so as Spotlight (I assume) creates an index. Once that's done, you're flying.
This is an amazing upgrade ... well worth the wait and the price. What I love most is the continuing attention to detail ... the cool visual effects with widgets are but one example. Launch a widget and the entire desktop ripples like cool, clear water. I'm still having fun with that!
Windows is now way behind ... or is that a cloud of dust a few miles back?
Some actual *information* October 15, 2004
Nicholas W. Sayer (Santa Clara, CA)
149 out of 197 found this review helpful
None of the reviews so far have actually, well, *reviewed* the product in question.
In the interests of providing some actual *information*, I present this small list of features that are slated to be in Tiger, once it becomes available.
Perhaps the best known enhancement coming is Spotlight. Spotlight extends search across the entire system. Searching for a particular word will search all of your e-mail, all of your folders, all of your documents, and the Internet for items that are relevant to the term. Recently, Google announced a product that will do more or less the same thing for Windows machines. I suspect Spotlight was their inspiration.
iSync will have an expanded role in Tiger. Applications will be able to write to a Sync framework to allow them to easily synchronize data across machines using .Mac. Right now, iCal, Safari Bookmarks and address book contacts can be synced using iSync, but with this framework any application could, for example, synchronize preferences.
The Automator will be for Tiger what WinRecorder is for Windows - the ability to perform a series of GUI operations once and define them as a single automated task.
Dashboard promises to revive the old notion of "desk accessories" - things like calculators, dictionaries, thesaurus -- all things that you need to consult, but that you don't want to clutter your desktop. Like Expose', the dashboard will come and go as you need it and will have small, useful tools. Since these tools will largely be written in DHTML and Javascript, it will be easy for developers to make new ones.
Safari will get RSS support. When a page has an RSS feed associated with it, you'll be able to quickly bookmark the feed and be notified when it updates. In addition, the feed text will be tied in with the summarization engine. So instead of the first few words of an article followed by "...", the RSS page will show meaningful summaries of the article text.
There's a lot more. These and other details can be had at http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/
Tiger rocks October 16, 2004
Cap'n Hector (CA)
43 out of 73 found this review helpful
I was able to use Tiger WWDC preview, and while the beta isn't fully polished (it's a beta) it's a real advancement over 10.3.
Spotlight rocks, Dashboard is (IMHO) better than Konfabulator, and Safari's RSS reading is very nice.
I'm looking forward to the full release.
Tiger Install/Upgrade Tips May 2, 2005
X (CA)
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
Since most of the previous reviews have covered the features, I thought I'd share how I upgraded from Panther to Tiger on my Powerbook. If you're undecided about doing an Erase and Install vs Upgrade vs Archive and Install like I was, keep reading.
While some mac experts say that upgrading on top of your old system should be fine, I prefer a "clean install" as an old habit from using Windows. But I didn't want to spend my weekend configuring everything and reinstalling all my applications. Here's what I did:
1. Cloned my Powerbook using a utility called SuperDuper (free/limited) to an external hard drive. I believe it's possible to clone to another mac or another harddrive. I had Filevault on and it is highly recommended to turn it off before cloning. Made another backup using .mac Backup just in case.
2. Tested the clone if it's bootable and my personal files were copied correctly.
3. Installed Tiger with Erase and Install option for a clean install. Towards the end of the installation, it asked if I wanted to copy settings, applications etc from another Mac or volume. I pointed it to my external HD. This step can be skipped as there is a migration utlity included in Tiger which does the same thing after installation.
4. Pretty much everything was transferred over including my dock layout etc. It alerted me to two apps that weren't transferred properly and had to be reinstalled: MS Mouse and Virex.
5. Reinstalled MS Mouse. Everything now feels "Snappier".
Don't reinstall Virex as it is not yet Tiger compatible. This caused my Powerbook to have the fan on all the time, so I had to uninstall it using a script from the Virex installation package.
I've noticed a couple of really minor glitches but it's only a matter of time before Apple fixes them. Spotlight and Dashboard seems to be really handy. Overall, there's a feeling that I've upgraded to newer mac computer.
 Nothing Revolutionary - Not So Stable July 3, 2005
Brownfox
18 out of 22 found this review helpful
I'm a big Apple fan and was an early adopter of OS X. I always jump on the new upgrades quickly. Panther was a great upgrade, Tiger is not. If you're still running Jaguar and are looking to upgrade - go for it. For the average Pather user, there's not alot going on here, aside from Dashboard. Most of the improvements are under the hood, which would be fine if the OS were more reliable, but this is the most unstable OS X since 1.0. My applications are constantly crashing and, after becoming accustomed to OS stablity, this is unacceptable and particularly annoying. I'm running a 1.25 G4 Powerbook with a Gig of RAM. Here's my reaction to the highlighted features:
SPOTLIGHT is cool and very fast. It is really handy if you want to find and open a specific file, but if you want to open the location of that file (so you can handle the file, as opposed to opening it), you're out of luck. You can hold your mouse over the spotlight result and a little box will open to show you the finder path to the location, but you can't click to open the location, instead you have to go navigate through the actual finder windows to get there.
iCHAT - The good news? Multiple user video conferencing! Awesome! The bad news? System requirements. You'll need a high end machine to join and an even higher end machine to host. Standard one on one chats are still great, but for the average user, this new multi-user feature is inaccessable.
PARENTAL CONTROLS - My child is 2 months old. I look forward to having these features much later in the game. I'm going to assume they're great, but at this point I have no idea.
DASHBOARD is crippled by lags and delays. The whole point of Dashboard is instant access, but if you access the Dashboard and have to wait 10+ seconds before it becomes active, there's not much point. For example, accessing the calculator on the Dashboard should be faster than digging into your Applications folder to open the calculator there. Or, there's a what-would-be-handy iTunes controller that you can access in less than one second from any application, but then it takes about 30 seconds to become active - what's the point? Your mileage may vary, and I hope it does.
AUTOMATOR might be great. I tried to use it once and eventually gave up. It seems like a lot of work went into a feature with extremely narrow application. I don't know. Mixed bag. I'll reserve judgment. Just because it wasn't what I was looking for, doesn't mean it won't be perfect for you.
SAFARI is still great. The addition of RSS feeds will be exciting for alot of people. It hasn't rocked my world, but it's a modern feature of the modern web browser and it's nice to see Apple leading the way.
MAIL has added the slideshow/photo handling feature. This rocks. This is great. This is worth the price of admission.
.MAC SYNC is different. I don't think it's better or worse, just different. Pretty much don't need the iSync application anymore because it's built into the OS. This means instead of opening the iSync application to access syncing controls, you open the system preferences application to access syncing controls.
VOICEOVER could be great. Never tried it. No idea.
QUICKTIME 7 makes Safari hang when I try to download .mpgs. I'm angry about this. None of the patches to date to either QT or the OS have fixed this. So, again, all the new under the hood encoding may be cool, but on the surface, it's still the same QT player, only now you have to pay to re-access QT pro and it often makes Safari hang for as many as 30 seconds. I'm very angry about this.
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