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Tiger: Shipped

Posted on April 28, 2005 by Mike

My copy of Tiger, Apple’s new version of their operating system, has offically shipped! As promised, it will arrive on the 29th. Unfortunatly, I will be going out of town for the weekend, so I won’t have a chance to play with it until Sunday night.

The only question I now have is whether to do a clean install or an upgrade. If it was Windows, of course, I would do a clean. But I’m not sure if its needed with Apple. I would be nice to clean it out a bit and start from scratch…but I’m not super familiar with all the backup techniques. I don’t like to buy that backup software, I do it the old-fashioned, by hand method. Well, I guess I have the weekend to think about it and figure it out…

  • danielcole

    How soon do you think it’ll be before the Mini’s ship with Tiger? I just bought myself a new 19″ monitor and I’m still in the “it’s ok to spend crazy amounts of money” mentality. I think I’m going to get the cheaper one – it’s not that much slower and I don’t really need the 80gigs of space (it’d be a different story if I did video, but I don’t).
    I will upgrade to 512mb and get the WiFi/Bluetooth so that ups the price to about $675. Mike: as a long time mac-guy, you see anything I should do different? Is that extra .17ghz really worth the $100?

  • danielcole

    How soon do you think it’ll be before the Mini’s ship with Tiger? I just bought myself a new 19″ monitor and I’m still in the “it’s ok to spend crazy amounts of money” mentality. I think I’m going to get the cheaper one – it’s not that much slower and I don’t really need the 80gigs of space (it’d be a different story if I did video, but I don’t).
    I will upgrade to 512mb and get the WiFi/Bluetooth so that ups the price to about $675. Mike: as a long time mac-guy, you see anything I should do different? Is that extra .17ghz really worth the $100?

  • http://hellyeahbitch.com Mike

    First off the Minis should be shipping with Tiger as soon at Friday (When Tiger is officially released.).

    That all looks good to me. As far as the $100 bucks for a .17 speed jump, I’m with you, as I don’t see the value. If someone is really looking to get more processor speed, step up to the G5, but if you ask me, the $100 extra bucks would be more well spent adding a Superdrive to the mini instead.

  • http://hellyeahbitch.com Mike

    First off the Minis should be shipping with Tiger as soon at Friday (When Tiger is officially released.).

    That all looks good to me. As far as the $100 bucks for a .17 speed jump, I’m with you, as I don’t see the value. If someone is really looking to get more processor speed, step up to the G5, but if you ask me, the $100 extra bucks would be more well spent adding a Superdrive to the mini instead.

  • danielcole

    Well, to be fair it’s $100 for .17Ghz + 40Gig of Harddrive. I guess I’ll be ordering my Mini sometime tomorrow.

  • http://hellyeahbitch.com Mike

    True. I forgot about that. I think I’d still go with a superdrive though if it was me.

  • danielcole

    Well, to be fair it’s $100 for .17Ghz + 40Gig of Harddrive. I guess I’ll be ordering my Mini sometime tomorrow.

  • http://hellyeahbitch.com Mike

    True. I forgot about that. I think I’d still go with a superdrive though if it was me.

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