OS X - Tiger Install
I installed Tiger today on my Powerbook. I hate to say it, but it didn’t go too well. I guess it was partially my fault. I tried to do an “archive install,” but the free space on my aging hard drive was pretty minimal. The installer said that I had enough space, but it was wrong. The archive went fine, and the install worked, but it failed to put my user accounts and settings back. I was able to move the user accounts from the archive into the new installation, but the network settings were just gone.
Once I started using Tiger, I got a little more annoyed. I use a Dvorak keyboard mapping instead of Qwerty. For some reason, whenever any application pops up a window to authenticate you, it switches the keyboard to Qwerty. This is *really* annoying. I worked around it by making Dvorak the only choice of keyboard in my account.
Another thing that irritates me is the new look of Mail. Why in the world did they create *another* style of toolbar. It just makes no sense. Especially, when they made it uglier than the normal toolbar. Performance-wise, though, the new Mail does seem to be improved.
While my first impressions certainly aren’t glowing like they usually are after installing a new version of OS X, one feature does shine through: Spotlight. Searching for things on a computer has never been this easy.
