Live Digitally sent a member of their web team to the San Francisco Apple store to cover the Tiger launch.
"The San Francisco Apple retail store closed its doors promptly at 5pm allowing employees one hour to prepare the venue for a 6:00pm arrival of Tiger. I showed my face in downtown San Francisco at 5:00pm to find a line of approximately 100 Mac fans patiently awaiting their entrance go-ahead.
The first person in line had smiles all the way, with "only one more short hour to go" written on his face. After a small chat with him I found out that he only used Macintosh computers (G4 at home and G5 for work), and arrived at 4:00pm to get his hands on the black box where X marked the spot."
You can read more of his experience and see exclusive pictures here .
Tiger Bits
Apple's new operating system Mac OS X. Tiger, touted by some folks (APPLE) as the world's most advanced operating system is available for purchase
"There are a lot of new features in Tiger, including a much more powerful Safari Browser, a much better e-mail client and something called the Automator, which is a simplified scripting system that quickly and easily can automate repetitive tasks," Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies recently said
Spotlight
Experience the breakthrough new desktop search technology that finds anything on your computer as quickly as you type. Search your entire system from one place: Files, images, emails, contacts, calendars and applications appear instantly.
Dashboard
Zooming to the top of your Desktop with the click of a function key, Dashboard, like Expose, disappears just as easily. Use Dashboard to access nifty new mini-applications called widgets.
Tiger also supports the next-generation video-compression standard H.264 and allows multiple users on the video conferencing program iChat.
Earlier this week, Apple rival Microsoft Corp. , the world's No. 1 software maker, showed off features of Longhorn, the next major release of its Windows operating system and which has been delayed a number of times. It is slated for release in 2006 reports Reuters.
