Apple Woo, tiger

Well that's the most in-depth analysis of an OS I've ever seen...

<A88>

 

Still backing up the mac

patients is a virtue dont you know

 

So is spelling

 

Where does it say anything about analysis...?

Post some screenies asap dude

 

Nahh


It's installing atm, not long now

 

Right, still copying stuff back to my iMac, but heres some screens taken during me configuring a few things etc.

Click HERE...

I've not finished taking the screens so more will be added, and the ones that are there already may be renamed

Text explanation of most of the screenshots to follow

 

restoreing.png
First time up, after only setting up networking (took me 30seconds)

aboutthismac.png
The Tiger About this mac box

dash_default.png
The dashboard as it come up the first time you hit F12

dash_changed.png
The dashboard after i'd added and removed a few widgets, more to come when i've experemented with the downloadable ones

mail_newaccount.png
The "wizard" for making an email account in mail, in the account type drop down is - .Mac, POP, IMAP and Exchange

mail_mainwindow.png
Mail's main window, not much to say about it, except everything seems to be in the right place, searching email is instant! even through the spotlight button in the top left of the screen

multiple_copying.png
Copying files from several locations, the amount of time it says is left was about right

rss_short.png
Viewing the apple hot news RSS feed in safari 2, and article length set to it's shortest

rss_long.png
Same as above, but with the article length set to longest

rssfeedscreensaver.png
RSS feed screen saver, fully 3d and very animated, the news items swing round followed by the next, pressing the key it says loads the article in safari, very cool

spotlight_im.png
Using spotlight, with "im" entered

spotlight_imag.png
As above, but with "imag" entered

spotlight_images.png
Again, as above, but with the full word "images", each search takes aprox 2-3 seconds to find the files, and about the same again to load the icons

spotlight_sysprefs_dash.png
Last one for now, again using spotlight, but this time in system preferences to find the dashboard panel


***** ***** *****

Anyone want a more specific thing in a screenshot just ask and i'll do my best

 

"Patients" is a virtue in my line of work. What you are looking for is probably "patience".

 

Spotlight: Awesome. Finds the most bizarre things with the most innocent searches.

Dashboard: Fantastic and with some additionally groovy new widgets already out there. One flaw seems to be the fact I cannot get the likes of the Yellow Pages and weather widgets to work locally (weather for London, no thanks).

RSS: Perfect execution and presentation, although takes a bit of fiddling to get a personalised list of feeds in the bookmark bar rather than the million assorted RSS's it comes with (and the smaller sites have been ommitted in the interest of protecting their bandwidth, which equals a fairly dull, N.American centric list of RSS).

General: Seems much faster on my iMac G5. Certain applications and task seem slightly quicker although Safari sometimes pauses mid-render (dunno why). Also my Airport reception is slightly improved (Bonus!).

 

Dunno about the yellow pages, but the weather one can get closer than just London, mines set to oxford, Benson (RAF Benson pretty much) works too, however, i can't get post codes to do anything

 

Dashboard widgets,

Some images of a couple of the standard ones.


Clock:
As it comes up when you activate it - 1_normal.png
After clicking the little i that appears on mouseover - 2_flipped.png
Clicking continents - 3_continent.png
And City - 4_city.png
After selecting London and flipping it back - 5_normal_London.png

Dictionary:
Freshly activated - 1_normal.png
the word "phone" entered - 2_textentered.png
Clicking on the P (changes to the first letter of the word) changes to a view of words starting with the one typed in - 3_letter_index.png
If you click thesaurus you um, get a thesaurus entry for the word - 4_thesaurus.png

 

Adding stuff like Newcastle only gives me the American version, in MA or ME not the UK city. You sure you're getting Oxford, England? Most other things it wont recognise (post code, county, specific cities like Sunderland).

 

just type "newcastle, united kingdom" - works fine.

 

When you enter the name, the uk ones seem to be at the bottom

 

good to see with the most advanced operating system on the planet we still manage to get stuck with getting it to tell us the weather ...

 

Yeah, add "xxxxxxxx, UK" and it seems to work.

 

Atleast thats the only thing going wrong... I still have nightmares about getting through the activation on XP

 

ah you see the joys of the mac ... no silly pc ideas like activation, us simple macians cant handle them ...

 

Tell me about it. Amazing concept, putting the OS DVD in, pressing 'Next' a couple of times, come back in half an hour and it's installed.

Incredible concept, isn't it?