No one would ever buy 40,000 words, but it should give you a sense of the thoroughness of the work. Now, Siracusa is a one-man team that could, who wrote enough words on Tiger to be paid $65,000 if he had a contract for typical, entry-level magazine writing, so he deserves a lot of respect, even when we disagree. While I dearly wish someone would steer them in the direction of the eternally neglected Finder, I can’t help but be proud of the little OS team that could. The productivity of Apple’s Mac OS X development team has increased tremendously since 10.0 they’re now firing on all cylinders. If this is what Apple can do with 18 months of development time instead of 12, I tremble to think what they could do with a full two years-let alone the length of time it took for Mac OS X 10.0 to first ship. There’s an unprecedented number of substantial, totally new features and technologies: Spotlight, Core Image and Video, Quartz 2D Extreme, Dashboard, and Automator, just to name a few. Every major bundled application has been improved. The performance improvements are immediately noticeable. It offers substantial improvements over Panther in all important areas. Tiger is the best version of Mac OS X yet. After reviewing everything there is to review, including purely aesthetic tweaks, I’ll give away his ending (since it’s obvious by the time you get to part 6, anyway): It’s the magnum opus of the Tiger world, and is so comprehensive it devotes five parts wholly to metadata. In that vein of noblesse oblige, John Siracusa at Ars Technica wrote the longest review of an operating system I have ever seen, at 21 parts and more than 40,000 words. Those of us fortunate to install soon after the release found ourselves an important source of knowledge for those who had not and, as always, there’s a certain degree of noblesse oblige from those with blogs to help out those in need of help. The latest one, Tiger, Mac OS X 10.4, is here, swiftly coming to dominate every printed word in the end of April and the beginning of May. So it’s no small wonder that Apple chose the names of large, swift cats to describe their OS X releases.
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