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Mac users descended upon Apple Stores from coast-to-coast Friday to be among the first to get their hands on Tiger. We've got reports from the New York and San Francisco Apple Stores on OS X 10.4's debut. more

[Reenee]

Aside from the bad feline jokes ("Get out of the 'Spotlight', you dancing person in costume, you! Ha ha! Get it? It's a Tiger feature...and...he's...in a Tiger...suit...), it just looks plain fun to go to events like these.

[heisetax]

These strange gatherings of Mac User's would be nice to take part in. Living in Omaha, NE, a trip to the nearest Apple store is 2-3 hour drive. I've had my copy of OS 10.4 since 11:30 A.M. on Thursday, Apr 28. I installed in on an external drive attached so far only to my 17" PowerBook.
So far no crashes, but then I haven't done much with it yet. Minor problems with Virtual PC, but that has been published already. MS Office works. Putting my CF card in the PC Card slot brought up iPhoto, no problems. Being a Konfabulator user, Dashboard doesn't have any Wow value. iChat AV looks interesting, but I have only one friend that has a camera, so no real change there. Spotlight sounds very interesting, butupon my first uses instead of giving me the 10-20 files I expected to see, it gave me 6700 files. In those 6,700 files was the 10-20 that I wanted to see. Because this drive was just thrown together as a back-up for my data files on my PowerBook & to have a free partition for OS 10.4. Unlike the old Find File, the new Spotlight will need some training & learning. Oh, I still liked those days when the Mac meant that you didn't have to read manuals or spend great amounts of time to operate the program in a useful manner. Gone are those days when even a Find File or should we now say Spotlight, requires reading & studying & work.
So for me the OS upgrade hasn't meant much yet. I'll keep it on this back-up external drive until all of the program that I use works with it correctly. I'll also check the different Mac Info sights to see if anyone is reporting very major type problems. I went to OS 10.3 on the first day & lost the information on one of back-up external hard drives. This time no PowerMac installation until I know that I won't get the unexpected.
To many this upgrade has passed the initial tests. It hasn't crashed the System yet. Other than Virtual PC, no problems with my OS 10 programs. Next to see how it works with Classic.
My reccommendation is to purchase the upgrade, be careful & have a good time. Post some information on what these so called 200 changes will mean to me, an accounting-bookkeeping-tax prep kind of Mac User. I've been a Mac User for 21 years now & have had every version of OS X including the Beta. So don't think of or call me a Troll. Just think of me as one of those that didn't make it to the Mac OS X Upgrade Party. I hope to be at the next one.
This reply was done using Tiger, so as someone else says, "It's a Mac, it just works.
Bill the TaxMan

[dux5]

These events are just plain fun.
I didn't make the one last night, but hit the opening of the Mission Viejo store. The passers-by just couldn't comprehend the long line.

[BobofBobs]

I stood in line for an hour at the Apple Store at the Christiana Mall in Christiana, DE. I was #8. It all looks very cool, and, as i have seen other peopel say, Konfabulator and Dashboard actually play very well together. Plus, macosxhints.com has a hint on how to make dashboard widgets float outside of the dasboard layer. Spotlight is cool, and though I can't see myself using it, I imagine that smart folders will eventually come into play for me. iChat 3 works pretty well, but I know 1 person w/ a camera. Oh, one undocumented feature that I thought was really cool/convenient waas that in the contextual menu from the dock, you can set apps to be login items. I think tiger is definitely worth the upgrade.

[spimster]

"Maybe there's a celebrity."
Why, of course there is.
It's the Mac and it's OS.

[imjeffp]

We had a good crowd in Austin--nice to see a big turnout in Dell's back yard.
My scratch-off got me 10% off anything in the store, that night only. Woo-hoo! Fifty bucks off Mom's new Mini (with a Tiger upgrade disk taped to the outside of the box).

[Uncle_Deercamp]

Nice to see so many goofballs getting out of line for Revenge of The Sith to go pick up Tiger.

[pcharles]

Oh! Bill! You are such a party pooper!

[mwalker]

Kind of like a Star Trek convention, but it's over faster. :-)

[moose_n_squirrel]

I can imagine how thousands of geeks planned their hot Friday night. "Ah geez...hey I got it. If we get Mikey to hold our place in teh Revenge of the Sith line, we can go to the Tiger launch early, and make sure to leave by 8:30 we can still make the last show of opening night of Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Awesome!!"

[lkalliance]

I managed two out of three: got Tiger installed, AND made it to Hitchhiker's that night. Plus a trip to the ER in between!
But I always knew where my towel was.

[macmanga]

I must say...I am becoming quite the uber-Geek. Went to three Tiger parties in all: Sagemore (NJ) Christiana Mall (DE) and King of Prussia (PA). Didn't win a computer despite my efforts...still had fun nevertheless. .

[moose_n_squirrel]

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But I always knew where my towel was.

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And let us never forget that Douglas Adams was one of the most publicly pro-Mac celebrities ever.