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Category: Software
Buy Used: $199.98
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 4105
Format: Dvd-rom
Platform: Mac Os X
Color: 1-user
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Tiger (DVD)
Operating System: Mac OS X
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5.2 x 1
MPN: MA190Z/A
Model: MA190Z/A
UPC: 885909081752
EAN: 0885909081752
ASIN: B000C7259K
Release Date: November 16, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
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| Features:
| • | Advanced OS combines power and stability of UNIX with elegance of Macintosh | | • | Fast Web browser with built-in RSS support; easy-access Dashboard | | • | iChat AV brings multi-way video and audio conferencing directly to Desktop | | • | Plug in nearly any device, plug into any network; no configuration, no hassle | | • | Breakthrough new desktop search technology; uncluttered workspace |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Mac OS X 10.4.3 Tiger offers more than 200 new features to make controlling your Personal information, applications and usage easier than ever. Accelerate your research with the powerful new development tools. Work with Integrated support for critical Audio functions for better Music at home. While you're doing both ofthese, you can also do just about everything else, from checking the weather to managing e-mail. Find, manage and enjoy the things you care about more effectively, with the most advanced Operating system yet released. Prepare to be amazed at how far operating systems have come. VoiceOver gives users with disabilities equal access to the power and simplicity of the Mac 64-bit UNIX based operating system with advanced distributed computing facilities and collaborative tools Also includes broader parental controls for children, better Mail organizing and archiving options, iChat AV and other tools for research, audio/video, design, photography and small business management
From Amazon.com Product Description
Apple's long awaited new operating system brings more than 200 new features to Mac users. Technically speaking, Tiger boasts an open source core, 64-bit system, and support for the High Definition H.264 video codec. But, every user will enjoy the highlights of this new release: a new search tool, cool new mini applications, real-time RSS feeds in the browser, improved email, amped up audio and visual conferencing, parental controls, automation of tedious, repetitive tasks, and the list goes on. OS-Level Search: Spotlight
Handled by Tiger's search technology, Spotlight, users may search across documents, images, movies, music, PDFs, email, calendar events, and system preferences with one keyword. Spotlight reviews text content, filenames, and keywords (metadata) applied by users and automatically stored by files to return search results. Results are fast and smart, providing previews of returned files and the ability to filter them by kind, date, people, and location. |  | | | Spotlight Search Return | More Robust Conferencing: iChat AV
iChat AV updates the Panther version with various new features. Enjoy three-dimensional, multi-participant video meetings with better resolution and compression. Conduct audio conferences with up to 10 members utilizing a graphical panel with sound meters for each speaker that indicate who is speaking. Purchase and run your own Tiger server and conduct instant messaging behind your firewall. |  iChat Audio Conferencing | 
iChat Video Conferencing
| | Parental Controls | | Set computer profiles for children using the aptly named Parental Controls and limit their access to system controls, documents, printers, burners, applications, email, chat, and the Web. With multiple profiles, parents can set varying levels of access for each child. Even downloaded or emailed applications are subject to parental approval first. | | Drop and Drag Tool Panels: Dashboard
Pull in mini applications from a menu, named the Dashboard, to complete frequent tasks, like tracking flights and stocks or looking up words in the dictionary. Add and rearrange these panels, called "widgets," on your desktop as you choose, and hide or show them with the click of a button. Some other widgets include a calendar, calculator, weather report, yellow pages, language translator and unit converter. | 
Desktop with Dashboard Widgets | 
Language Translator Widget | 
Stock Tracking Widget | | Automated Repetitive Tasks: Automator
Choose pre-programmed "actions" from a library and automate tedious tasks when they have to be done in bulk, like editing images for slideshows and creating birthdays in the address book. There are hundreds in the can and sure to be more as third-party vendors create and make them available. | 
Automation of Image Editing Task with Automator | |
Real-time Browser: Safari
Quickly view news headlines and article summaries from around the world with Tiger's browser, Safari . Take advantage of RSS protocols to get the latest news updates automatically.
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Improved Mail
| Tiger's email program, Mail, uses Spotlight to manage your mail. Find messages easily and let Mail automatically organize your messages as they come into the box. New photo resizing, archiving, and slideshow options enhance your ability to share and enjoy pictures via email. | |
Centralized Computer Sync: .Mac Sync
Use .Mac to sync all your Mac computers, wherever they are. .Mac Sync allows you to conveniently sync your Safari bookmarks, iCal appointments, Address Book contacts, passwords, and Mail settings for multiple Mac computers over the Internet.
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Automation of Image Editing Task with Automator |
VoiceOver
| Apple's spoken interface technology, VoiceOver, gives people with visual and learning disabilities equal access to Mac. |
Enhanced QuickTime 7
| Featuring the new standards-based H.264 video codec, QuickTime 7 brings you incredible video quality with lower data rates and smoother playback. |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 If I could put negative 1 trillion stars I would May 28, 2006
WASSA (New orleans., LA)
3 out of 44 found this review helpful
There is no question. This is probably the worst operating system to ever come out into the computer industry. Basically, its a piece... Well, you know what I mean. I promise you, there is a VERY GOOD REASON WHY WINDOWS IS THE MOST POPULAR OS IN THE WORLD. Most of what this OS has is stolen from other OS's, even things like widgets (on the dashboard), minimizing windows (from Microsoft Windows), the very NAME "Windows" (used to describe open applications on the desktop), maximizing windows, virtually everything on it is copied from other OS's, and there is a reason why Apple did this. Their OS is terrible, and they needed to steal from other companies in order to make theirs popular, which even now isn't as popular as Windows, which it stole primarily from. The reason I am writing this review isn't just to trash something on the net, its to help others not fall into the trap that Apple makes out of its OS. Sure, alot of proffesional people use it, but that's because they only need to do one thing, and Apple can do that, but nothing else. If you need to do anything other than browse the web (Apple can't even do that very well, with Safari), then get Windows.
 Buying a Mac? Learn about OSx86 and VMware. April 10, 2006
OverTheMoon (overthemoonreview@hotmail.com)
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
Apple announced that Intel core duo processors will be used in the new range of Macs. Hardware developers and programmers and just about everyone else ask what is stopping OSX from running on a non-apple computer with Intel processors... turns out that there was not much except for some code in the OSX software. Then somebody changes the code in the fall of 2005. Now everyone who wants to see and use OSX before they buy gets VMware, obtains a copy of OSx86 and boots the latest Mac OS on Windows or Linux. This is not dual booting. VMware is virtualization software. Modern hardware is fast enough to run other Operating Systems at 75% or above speed at the same time. Seeing OSX running on Windows or Linux will have eyes open wide in the room around you. For Mac users who have shelled out their hard earned cash on a Mac, seeing this reaches down into the very depth of the soul. Apple announces a new boot camp that allows Macs to dual boot Windows, but not virtualize it. Back in the 80s - 90s there was good reason to own Mac hardware. In the 21st century all hardware companies are mostly using third world sources to build their components. So in terms of Mac hardware versus clone PCs, there is not much difference anymore. OSx86 booting on a non-apple computer is the biggest event in the history of Apple Macintosh. It will make you think.
OSX is great. For anyone who has booted Linux or FreeBSD can see the advantages of having a desktop that is better than Gnome or KDE. That is OSX. Beneath OSX is a type of FreeBSD-like system. That is a UNIX-like system. Mac software does cost money though. There isn't much more to this topic other than the above. This is the current model of thought when it comes to OSX. There are many in denial that OSx86 exists. The development is that significant. Just learn about it. Then consider your next move.
Mac does a great job again! March 23, 2006
Philip Spertus (Austin, Texas)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
Mac's Tiger operating system is an improvement over an already excellent earlier version.
I also have have upgraded to iLife 6 which is a marvelous suite of products for photos, videos, music and production of DVDs.
Mac OS X 10.4.3 Tiger DVD - good upgrade March 19, 2006
A. Rizo-patron (Hartford, CT USA)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
OS X Tiger (10.4) is a sufficiently important upgrade from Panther (10.3) to consider it seriously. Increasingly more programs are written to run only on Tiger and not on previous versions. One example is the spectacular Google Earth which was one of the items that tipped me over in favor of going through the upgrade.
A major operating system upgrade should only be attempted after having created a full backup copy of your installation onto another disk (or even an iPod with sufficient available space in it). I use Carbon Copy Cloner for this and I had to go through the drill 3 times, each time testing pre-existing programs to see if they no longer worked as before. A small number had problems, but they had Tiger-specific upgrades that I could easily get.
New Tiger features like Spotlight and Dashboard are great. I use them frequently now. There is nothing like them on Windows XP (which I use at work every day).
I used an "Update" mode install (the default) although I have a somewhat large and complex setup on an older system, a dual 1.42ghx G4 PowerMac with 2GB of RAM and 9 hard disks with a combined capacity of 2.1 terabytes (i.e. 2,100+ GBs), several accounts and 3rd party software packages.
When I upgraded from Jaguar to Panther, the "Update" install did not work for me and I had to use the "Archive-Install" which is a bit more drastic about cleaning up your pre-existing settings.
This time, the more painless Update install worked fine.
Tiger is a worthwhile upgrade and the Amazon discount didn't hurt either.
Great for movies, music but that's all. March 14, 2006
Thomas C. Garrison (Manassas, VA United States)
4 out of 27 found this review helpful
I got this os with my new iMac, it plays music from a CD, the software comes with none. It plays dvd's. No tutorials to help you get started, it does have some microsoft junk bundled with it. I paid more to get a mac so that I would not half to deal with microsoft. The printed documentation is of little help. My first iMac 9.1 came with a lot of extras, Appleworks, music, movies, and a good tutorial. Also none of my software that I am running on 9.1 will work on Tiger.
Not happy with my $2,000 + purchase .
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