Here it comes, folks! Apple has announced the release date for Mac OSX 10.4 - known as Tiger.
On April 29th, we'll have access to a seemingly powerful operating system. I guess we'll find out for sure when it's installed on our machines. Along with it comes over 200 new features, the most highly-anticipated being Safari's built-in RSS aggregation, Dashboard (little scripted widgets that float on your screen and do small, discrete tasks. Think UNIX command-line tools but for Mac) and Automator.
Tiger will also have new image handling, with advanced graphics capabilities built-in to the operating system and offloaded to the graphics card. I expect this will further enhance the perceived responsiveness of older hardware, but that remains to be seen.
I'll post further review information once I get my copy- Tiger is on pre-order at Amazon for $35 off! Two copies would therefore be less than the Family Pack at $200, for those of us who have a desktop and a laptop only, this is a better deal than $200 for 5 licenses, 3 of which we won't be using.
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