![]() If you are eligible for a student discount, Tiger's price tag drops down to just $69. As with most Apple products, there are some hefty savings to be had if you are a student/educator and are purchasing through Apple's online store or in an actual Apple store. So, although a lot of the work that went into this article was done on beta copies of Tiger, the final article wasn't written until I'd used the final build of the OS.Īs with previous versions of the Mac OS X, version 10.4 (Tiger) isn't a free upgrade Tiger is priced at $129. However, I did wait to finish this article until I had spent a good amount of time with the final build of Tiger, which begins shipping today (although, thankfully, some copies were shipped out earlier than expected). So, for the past several months, I used Tiger on my PowerBook, updating it whenever there was a new beta released. Instead, I made my PowerBook the Tiger test bed, since it is something that I use regularly, yet on which I do not store extremely important data (I always had a copy of everything on my desktop and on my file server). In order to get a good feel for the OS, I had to make sure that I had Tiger installed on a computer that I used regularly, but I didn't dare install a very beta OS on my main desktop. For me, it was a way to get access to monthly builds of Tiger and gain a ton of experience with the OS over the past several months. The Early Start program was designed for developers to get access to Tiger and to be able to develop for all of its new technologies. ![]() Luckily, early on in Tiger's development, Apple created a Tiger Early Start program for developers through their Apple Developer Connection (ADC) website. NDAs and roadmaps just generally don't come from Apple, so I knew that if I wanted to get early experience with Tiger, I would have to go around Apple PR. Apple's PR doesn't work the same way that PC manufacturers do they are extremely secretive. I can hardly consider myself an expert on Macs, but I do see myself as someone who is genuinely interested in them which is why when Apple started talking about the features in Mac OS X Tiger, I found myself just as intrigued as I would be talking to any PC manufacturer about a new product. PC debate almost always ends up being just as touchy of a subject as religion or politics, making it difficult to get a balanced perspective on anything relating to what's on the other side of the fence. As such, I think my perspective on things tends to be a little different than most. The reaction is always interesting, but to me, it's a non-issue I'm not a switcher, but rather a dual user. A few weeks back, I went down to AMD to talk about dual core and I even was commended by a few employees for bringing a "neutral" laptop to AMD, instead of my normal Pentium M based notebook. I'll run into people at trade shows and they are shocked by the fact that I'll actually be typing on a PowerBook (as if it is some sort of a surprise to actually use hardware that you recommend). My Macs are now just as much a part of my daily routine as my PCs. ![]() Through it all, my Mac usage has proved itself to be more than just a phase. ![]() Over the past year, I've brought a handful of Mac related articles to AnandTech, covering everything from the mobile experience of Mac OS X to a look at the new Mac mini. I've been a Mac/PC user for almost a full year now - it's very hard to believe that last June, I took a (very expensive) gamble on a platform of which I knew nothing about and as a result, emerged with a totally new perspective on something that I had always shunned. ![]()
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