Let's say, for a hypothetical, I had Tiger installed on my system. And let's say that I wrote a little bit on what I thought of it. Sounds like fun...

First Impressions: It has some fancy new eye candy. The dashboard effects, the spotlight. I can see why they were toting it so much. It definately is swizzle sweet. Speed... I don't really notice a difference here. Then again, I am running a dual G5 2.0 with 3.5 of RAM, so I'm not sure how much of a difference it could have made. I'll tell you this, it didn't break any of my apps. I can still run all my little programs that make me feel like I have a creative bone in my body, and they do just fine; again, no difference in speed there.

My favorite new feature: RSS Visualizer. The screensaver that spits up your favorite RSS feed, and displays it as a screen saver. It allows with one keystroke, you to access a particular article that appeals to you while you waste your work day away, watching all these feeds swing by...

Second favorite feature: Spotlight. Two words for you. Meta. Data. This rules. Good bye Finder, hello Spotlight. Now if it were just as fast as Quicksilver.

My least favorite feature: Dashboard. I'm sorry, I just don't see a use for this yet. If I want to know what the weather is like, I'll look outside. If I want to know what the date is, I'll do what I've been doing for the last ten years, and click in the top right corner. Until some widgets come out that demand it, this is just eye candy, and not that useful.

My second least favorite feature. Spotlight. How can this be? Because it indexes your hard drive at seemingly random times, and there is no control panel to shut of said indexing. That can be sucky when you're trying to render the next Pixar knock off, and your drive is being taxed already by a Spotlight index...

So if I did have Tiger installed on my system, I guess that would be my top rankings. I can't wait to get it!

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