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Within a second, you have your entire list of search hits at the upper right hand corner of your screen. Spotlight on the G5 is lightning quick, although the results don't all pop up at the same time. On the mini and the PowerBook G4, it is definitely slower than the G5, thanks to their slower hard drives, but it is still fairly quick to search and bring up results. Performance using Spotlight is pretty impressive on all three systems on which I've tried Tiger.

#Tiger software for mac mac

For this article, I used Tiger on four different modern day Macs: two Powermac G5 systems (dual 2.5GHz and dual 2.0GHz), one Mac mini and a 15' PowerBook G4. Other areas of performance show definite improvements in Tiger, but what's interesting to me is that subjective performance impacts vary greatly (for me) depending on the type of system that I'm using. Tiger's menu highlight does seem to be slightly more laggy than Panther's. After booting them back to back, it's clear that my worries were founded. At first, I thought that I was just imagining things, but then I set up a G5 test bed with two identical hard drives the only difference being one drive had Panther while the other had Tiger.

The biggest exception, from my perspective, is the fact that menu highlights always seem to just barely trail my mouse pointer in Tiger, whereas Panther kept up very well. I'd say that overall performance in Tiger is an improvement over Panther, but there are some definite exceptions to the rule.

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Being a Windows user, this was a complete reversal of my thinking - as each new iteration of Windows was an excuse for me to build a ridiculously powerful machine by my old standards, to feel even remotely at home under the latest version of Windows.īut it would appear that I may have missed the boat, as performance in Tiger is a mixed bag. The one thing that excited me more than anything else about getting and using Tiger was that everyone had lauded OS X for being the one OS that had improved in performance with every iteration.