Today, Friday April 29th, sees the launch of the long-awaited Mac OS X 10.4 ‘Tiger’, a very capable looking operating system with a lot more features even than the promised ‘Longhorn’ version of Windows. For those of you who are thinking of buying a Powerbook (laptop) or Power Mac (desktop), bear in mind that it will be a month or two before computers actually start being shipped with Tiger pre-loaded. Until the middle of June at the earliest, even if a computer system says it includes Tiger, it will probably have the previous version (10.3 ‘Panther’) of OS X installed, and a disc for you to install Tiger yourself (a royal pain in the backside). So hold your horses!
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