Following on from Tiger : The good...

Performance : Okay, so originally I thought that my aging G4 PowerBook was running faster after installing Tiger and, to a degree, I still think it is. However, like many other people, I get periods where the OS just freezes up and shows the spinning beachball of death. This seems to be particularly noticeable with Safari. I wonder whether Spotlight is indexing the cache. Perhaps I'll try adding a few directories to the Spotlight privacy list.

No iPhoto : The iBook I upgraded was still running the copy of Jaguar that was pre-installed when it was bought, which included an early version of iPhoto. Of course, iPhoto has since been upgraded and is now bundled under the iLife suite. However, if you perform an "erase and install" of Tiger, iPhoto isn't installed. I know why it's not installed, and that's because it's a part of iLife, which is a separate purchase. I do feel a little cheated though. Back when I first saw Mac OS X (Jaguar), I remember thinking that you basically get everything that you need right out of the box. I think that this is still the case now if you buy a new Mac because most (all?) Macs include a copy of iLife. However, for people performing a fresh upgrade of the OS, iPhoto might not be there when you bootup Tiger for the first time. I did check the Tiger DVD and I couldn't see if anywhere obvious. If I've missed it, please do let me know. I really hope that this isn't the start of a trend where such useful applications move out of the core OS. Thankfully iTunes is still with us.

No StuffIt Expander : I stumbled upon this by accident after trying to reinstall JProfiler, but Tiger doesn't know how to open .sit files. Plenty of discussion on the web about this (e.g. here) but downloading StuffIt does the trick.

iTunes Music Store authorization : I copied my iTunes library across from a backup and need to reauthorize my Mac to play them. This is a bit strange, particularly since I only upgraded the OS! I guess I need to deauthorize my computer. Update : After following the instructions, it looks like only one computer is authorized after all. This is still confusing though.

Brightness control : Sometimes, I can press the "decrease brightness" key once and the backlight on my PowerBook screen goes from maximum to off. It's happened a few times now and I'm sure Panther never used to do this to me.

Other than that, there's nothing *really* bad about Tiger. Well, apart from the security flaw in Dashboard! ;-)