8:40 AM - Tiger observations: Day 2
Mail.app took about 5 minutes to import my email into the new format. So far, mail.app is a lot faster. Many people reported it was slower, but i suspect it scales better with a lot of email like i have. The app uses about 1/4 of the memory of the 10.3 version. (well physical anyway) Nice.
Dashboard is kewl. It startes a new process for each item on there and the memory usage is around 2-3 mb for most of the widgets. I initially had 6 enabled but it was killing performance. It took aboubt 30 seconds to render them all. I dropped down to just calculator, weather, and stocks. Its very peppy now.
Webobjects is working a lot better. There are bugs, but i can actually get an app to start in xcode2 correctly now. Huge improvement.
I only have 2 gig of space left. The upgrade ate up about 3gig of disk space. I pruned it a little but its still bad.
I have about 13gig of music on my hard drive though.
OSX 10.4 ships with apache ant, log4j and a few other libraries built in. I found myself deleting copies today of many of those items.
Spotlight is actually very fast and useful. The indexing took over an hour on my laptop, but it was worth it! Last night i searched for norton to remove elements of norton av that i uninstalled a few months ago. It found copies everywhere and even pdf docuements making references to norton. It can search 14 different sources including address book, mail.app, file systems, help, iphoto, itunes, etc.
Overall system performance is better in tiger, but there are some slow spots. The window manager halls ass!
I wouldn't call this a huge release, but it certainly brought OSX back to its next roots. They added a dictionary app like next had! Little things like that. Spotlight feels like a next feature. So does dashboard.