Tiger Upgrade: Yea or Nay?

[grigbigl]

What is the consensus?

I'm currently using OS 10.3.6. Very Stable.

Should I upgrade?

Greg

[lordsmurf]

Only upgrade when you need to. Not for the fun of it.

[terryj]

the most you should do at this point is 10.39.
Panther is still very stable; don't get sucked into
upgrading because you want to be "cutting edge."

Getting things accomplished and out the door
is more "cutting edge" than widgets, doohickeys,
and contributing to a company's bottom line.

My own experience at work upgrading a handful of machines
to Tiger has been frought with problems: 3rd party cards
stop working, production suites become unstable,
and I'm just now getting into the SaMBla networking
headaches....

At home I'm 10.39, and will probably be that way for a WHILE.

[alph]

doohickeys!

For me what it comes down to is what you use your machine for. If it runs some critical piece of software every day and without it you will end up in the street then moving up to 10.3.9 would be the safe way to go.

On the other hand, if you use your machine for general use and a little tweaking is not a big deal, then long live doohickeys!

Furthermore, since 10.4.2 most of the issues that 10.4 had on realease have been fixed.

Alph

[Lobe]

Tiger is much. much faster for me- 2.5DP, But, things like DVDBackup no longer work- and sometimes (until 3.0?) MacTheRipper doesn't work. Tiger is mostly grrreat! mostly.

[grigbigl]

Besides DVDBackup and MacTheRipper, any other video editing applications promoted here not working?

[terryj]

Final Cut Pro 5
I think someone mentioned Mpeg Streamclip

related:
Compressor 2 ( buggy under 10.39, flat out unusable on 10.42)
DVD Studio Pro 4 (although 4.02 is supposed to fix some of this)
Quicktime 7.01 ( and by extension QT Pro 7) still has issues
related to DIVX I'm reading...

[Lobe]

sorry perhaps you misunderstood, I wasn't clear. MTR works fine but the few RARE things it doesn't work on, which should be fixed by v3.0, I had to rely on DVDBackup, and DVDBackup is a no go with Tiger--be careful it appears fine, but is messed up.

[albloom]

I'm with the so-far majority here. From what I'm seeing
in various forums, El Tigre is not ready for prime time.

[pglock]

<2 cents>
Just upgraded the one remaining 10.3.9 mac at home as the three other machines have been running stable since 10.4.1 and now all ok on 10.4.2.

DVDSP, FCP HD, iLife all working well. YadeX, MTR, even OSeX all working.

However, there's no compelling reason to upgrade from 10.3.9 if you're happy but Leopard is some time away. If you're not going to wait for 10.5 then I'd schedule the upgrade around your availability to take some time over the upgrade (I recommend 'Archive & Install', not 'Upgrade') now that Tiger is settling down.
</2 cents>

[alph]

In response to pglock's comment:

However, there's no compelling reason to upgrade from 10.3.9

I have to disagree: Doohickeys! The are compelling.

Alph

P.S. I've been saying "doohickeys" for days now since reading this thread

[terryj]

alph.....

[thoughton]

I'm siding with the upgraders here. I haven't had any serious incompatibilities with Tiger, although I havent had the need to try any of Apple's pro apps recently.

"Doohickeys" aside (it seems like everyone is referring to dashboard), I haven't seen a SINGLE mention of Spotlight.

I am finding Spotlight to be a massive timesaver for work, including indexing snippets of code, quickly finding photos based on keywords, searching in PDFs I've already sent to clients (always handy when you cannot remember what wonders you promised :P ), etc etc etc.

Spotlight on my PB667 isn't as lightning fast as I'd like, but it's still a hell of lot faster than doing it manually.

[thoughton]

PS Although it's a hassle, I'd recommend a 'clean install', and not an archive or an upgrade.

[Gillies]

im never going back to panther

[pglock]

Ok, Ok, I like doohickeys. There, I admitted it. That feels much better now...

[mhar4]

PS Although it's a hassle, I'd recommend a 'clean install', and not an archive or an upgrade.

I'll second that.

[willrob]

If you have a dual layer DVD burner, I believe you will need Tiger (and iDVD 5.01, and the french patch) to create large projects. I'm pretty sure this isn't an option in Panther....but I could be wrong.

[820am]

I've been using Tiger since ... whenever, the day it came out and I'm very happy with it.

No problems with MPEG Streamclip, no problems with Compressor or DVDSP. DVDBackup doesn't work, but 0sex, MTR, and YADE do. DIVX released a beta that works great.

Good stuff.

[vwDavid]

Definately, Definately do a clean install if you do it. I did an upgrade and a bunch of things aren't working. Now, I don't have the drive space or time to do a clean install. Schedule it when you have time.

Only thing that remains broken for me is Tyeditor for Tivo extraction- but I heard it works with a clean install.

cheers

[willrob]

vwDavid

is tivotool working for you?

[stniuk]

Using Tiger since it came out, it's very stable and Spotlight is very useful, dashboard less so.