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a) I know this is shipping 'in the first half of 2005' but is there an exact date for it as yet

and possibly more importantly...

b) Is it going to be worth shelling out £100 quid for?

The trouble with Apple things is that they never come down in price, so there's no point waiting around for 6 months. They'll probably have another one out by then, anyway.

I am tempted by the Safari RSS features, but I already have Newsfire; I rarely search for things on my Hard drive, so Spotlight probably isn't going to be something I 'can't live without'; and I've tried Konfabulator and actually just found it quite irritating and pointless... why do I need something to tell me the weather when I can just look out of the window?

Also, does anyone know if there are going to be any updates to Mail? It seems so neglected now, despite the fact that it's probably the thing people use most regularly.

Tiger will include Mail 2.0
http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=532

Oh jolly good.

Shame it is not going to get the lovely brushed metal look. Still makes it seem like an outcast.

I was looking at one of the fora on there, and it says that if you have just bought a Mac you get a cheap OS upgrade.

As I only bought my new iBook in October, presumably I am entitled?

Apple are such rip off merchants.

cat wrote:As I only bought my new iBook in October, presumably I am entitled?

I wouldn't bank on it - the entitlement window is usually quite small.

James Hatts wrote:

cat wrote:As I only bought my new iBook in October, presumably I am entitled?

I wouldn't bank on it - the entitlement window is usually quite small.

How about December?

Well, some of the features of Tiger look very useful. OS X -Tiger

Mac OS X
Spotlight - Could be very Handy
Dashboard - Could be very Handy
Safari RSS - Looks like a great improvement on Safari
Mail 2.0 - Looks like a great improvement on Mail
iChat AV - Probobly Won't Use
Automator - Could be very Handy
VoiceOver - Probobly Won't Use
Parental Controls - A must for me
.Mac Sync - A must for me
QuickTime 7 - A must for me (With H.264)

iLife
iPhoto 5 - Looks like a great Upgrade
iMovie HD - Probobly Won't Use as i don't have a HD camera
iDVD 5 - Probobly Won't Use as i don't have a superdrive
Garageband 2 - A must for me
iTunes 4.7 - A must for me

iWork
Pager - Looks like a Great improvement on Appleworks
Keynote - Looks like a Great improvement on Appleworks

BTW, I recomend that you look at this -> Macworld Expo keynote address

Chris Turnbull wrote: Pager - Looks like a Great improvement on Appleworks

To be picky, it's actually called Pages.

Fireboy wrote:

Chris Turnbull wrote: Pager - Looks like a Great improvement on Appleworks

To be picky, it's actually called Pages.

Darn, i thought i'd spelt everything OK. oh well, one typo out of the lot ain't bad is is?
(Especialy since MS word is acting up, Again )

I thought iWork was a seperate suite of apps?

Is it going to be included in Tiger?

I've got iWork, and Pages is fantastic - but not quite a Word killer. It lacks a lot of features that you would expect after coming from Word, but lets hope these get fixed in future versions. Keynote is fantastic, and importantly it exports to PPT pretty damn well.

Get's released later this week. Think I'm going to upgrade, and also get the latest iLife, with the up-to-date versions of iTunes, iPhoto etc.