I might do that actually. Just aquired a new 250GB firewire one, so if I backup my 120GB one onto that, I could test it with the 120GB one.

The 120GB one was actually connected to mothers iMac when I upgraded it to Panther, and it still works perfectly...

I guess I was just lucky...?

I'll be doing my first the morning of the 30th, after the HitchHiker's Guide and the release party on the 29th. :)

I can't wait for that movie. I hope it's as good as the BBC series, which was almost exactly how I envisioned the book (very cool). I'm going to read the book again this week.

April 29th is going to be a great day, and i doubt i'll even make it to the bars that friday night ;)

What I like about Tiger?
 

I like the fact that Tiger can search my comments in the get info section. That's pretty cool. I tend to write a lot of stuff in the comment section so being able to search this with Tiger is a plus. I wish that spot light would color label the files as they are in Finder, that would make it even better.

I also like the fact that we now have the option to encrypt the swap file. This issues came up in the past and has been addressed.

Hats off for Apple in implementing these needed solutions.

I also like the way they improved the script editor dictionary. Check it out, it is pretty cool from the way it use to be.

In the future, I just hope that on the exchange server side, they make some significant improvements in automount, hyperlinking, etc...

I would also like to see the ability to save work space prior to a schedule shutdown.

thx
RLC

My reasons for not using Tiger yet [we've got it, but I mainly still boot Panther]:

- Hash's Animation:Master isn't ready for Tiger yet
- My company requires me to use their virus protection software [Norton], and they haven't provided a Tiger-compatible version
- Konfabulator is now free, courtesy of Yahoo! I LOVE that part ... now I can enjoy an even niftier Dashboard than, um, Dashboard.

Well I did end up getting Tiger, but that's because it came with the Powermac. The hardware upgrade was sorely needed, but I still haven't really found a whole lot that I use in Tiger that wasn't available in Panther.

I don't use Spotlight, barely use Dashboard (I have a weather widget, an 8-ball widget, and a Sokoban (that's a simple game) widget). Mail's upgrades are nothing to squeal over, as far as I can tell.

When I upgraded from Puma to Panther, I noticed a huge (huge!) difference in OS speed. I did notice a huge difference between Tiger and Panther, but there's that whole hardware upgrade thing that makes it hard to discern any difference in overall OS speed improvments.

Overall, though, I think I would have been perfectly happy with Panther if my iMac had been able to keep up with everything that I was doing.

Having had Tiger since it was first released (mainly for Automator and Spotlight) I have to say that I am glad I did. In my archive I have 6,000 family photos that date back to 1910. Thanks, in a large part, to my Dad who was a shutterbug and used Kodachrome film! After a few months of intense mouse and keyboarding, I have finally put in Spotlight comments on 95% of the photos. Now if I want that one illusive photo of my Dad during WWII, I can put in "Berlin" and "1945"-- boom, 4 pictures show up with my Dad training for the Berlin Airlift and posing with his buddies. I put in the word "portrait" and I see all the professionally posed photos from my great grandmother, to my own kids.

Thanks to Automator, I was able to right-click on a large number of photos and enter in information globally, such as "1987 Christmas".

Dashboard comes in handy for when I want a quick spelling of a word. I did not want to mispell words in my metadata. It's also nice to have Dashboard come up as a screensaver for quick access to time, date and what is on TV tonight.

The only thing I do not like about Spotlight is there are not enough preference settings. For example, I would like to do a search when I hit RETURN rather than every time I type a letter.

For me, Tiger was worth it.