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Ho hum about the new cat

Posted on April 27, 2005 
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I can’t put my finger on it, but I’m not just that excited about [OS X Tiger](http://www.apple.com/macosx) compared to other techie-thinking bloggers. It has nothing to do with my PC, because I’m not all that interested in the Longhorn sneak peeks right now either. Except to say that I think Longhorn is looking pretty ugly. I know that we’re not supposed to be judging the interface yet, but still. I didn’t like OS X when it first came out. It had to grow on me.

No, I think my ho-hum attitude is simply that I’m “over” operating systems. I move back and forth so I’m not wedded to which dialog box is which. I don’t use .Mac, iCal, Safari or Mail so that wipes out a whole bunch of the 200 new features. Well, that’s not entirely true…in a pinch on my G5 I’ll fire up Mail to get at email via IMAP but it’s closed 90% of the time. I ordered Tiger from [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com) and it hasn’t shipped yet and I’m not concerned. Eric and I were on line at the Apple Store for Jaguar and Panther and I had no desire to do that this time. What still perks my attention is applications. I am reading everything I can get my hands on about [Adobe Creative Suite 2](http://www.adobe.com) and it’s that order that is making me refresh my browser wondering why it isn’t shipping yet from Amazon. This morning, I gave up and found that [PC Connection](http://www.pcconnection.com) is not only selling the CS 2 Upgrade for $10 less than Amazon, but they have it in stock and it should ship tonight. Good enough for me, I cancelled my Amazon order.

Honestly, I’m far more interested in Tiger for the kids’ iMac because of the parental control features and the dictionary Dashboard widget. Laini goes to dictionary.com often to look up words and having it on the desktop is a nice touch. But that would mean ordering Tiger on CD since their iMac doesn’t have a DVD drive.

At least I finally got around to catching my G5 up to 10.3.9. Seems to be fine. I always wait at about a week for OS upgrades, quit all applications, check permissions, check the latest backup, eject the external FW drive and then upgrade. So if I’ve got 15 applications open and projects I’m working on it’s not something I do lightly.

Maybe I’m just depressed that there are no nibbles on my [iBook](http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5770387641) and for the life of me I can’t figure out why not. There’s been a lot of folks looking at the listing, but no bids. It’s certainly competitive. There’s [this one](http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=80050&item=5770625682&rd=1) that’s a G3/700 with 256MB RAM and a 20GB drive that’s up to $480. I’m starting the bidding at $300 for 100 extra Mhz, maxxed RAM, bigger HD, better video *and* I’m including a case, a mouse and some time left on AppleCare. What is wrong with that?!? I’m hoping that there will be a surge in the last day.

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