What will happen to the all new imac when OS X Tiger comes along?
By Spring 05, it'll be the old iMac and everyone will be going crazy wondering what will be in the new iMac. As for Tiger, the iMac will run it fine. Any iMac G4 and above will run it fine.
By Spring 05, it'll be the old iMac and everyone will be going crazy wondering what will be in the new iMac. As for Tiger, the iMac will run it fine. Any iMac G4 and above will run it fine.
I think Tiger will increase 64 bit optimization which will only improve the performance of the G5 iMac. By the time it comes out there will also be more 3rd party software available, or nearing completion, that will utilize the G5 potential. A lot of third party development will be motivated by the demand for the G5 iMac, especially in a competitive market.
I have a feeling that everyone will be very surprised at the performance bump for the G5 iMac when Tiger is released.
It is not just the improvements to Tiger as an OS that will be helping out the G5. The hope is that Apple will upgrade to a significantly improved GCC compiler suite. If they rebuild the entire software package, that comprises MacOS/X, we are likely to see across the board performance inprovements.
G5 and the G4 are likely to benefit. So while 64 bit optimizations may have a place and could potentially offer improvements, we are likely to see significant gains even on older hardware.
Thanks
Dave
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Originally posted by kenaustus
I think Tiger will increase 64 bit optimization which will only improve the performance of the G5 iMac. By the time it comes out there will also be more 3rd party software available, or nearing completion, that will utilize the G5 potential. A lot of third party development will be motivated by the demand for the G5 iMac, especially in a competitive market.
I have a feeling that everyone will be very surprised at the performance bump for the G5 iMac when Tiger is released.
Yeah, probably an obvious thing, but by time Tiger comes out the newer computers will come with it..depends if you want the computer now or if you want to wait for Tiger..
It is not just the improvements to Tiger as an OS that will be helping out the G5. The hope is that Apple will upgrade to a significantly improved GCC compiler suite. If they rebuild the entire software package, that comprises MacOS/X, we are likely to see across the board performance inprovements.
Tiger will come with gcc 3.5, which will indeed bring significant performance enhancements.
However, Spotlight will slow things down at least a little bit.
The official timeframe for Tiger to be released is the "first half of 2005". That's all we know.
Everyone seems to be expecting that to be around April/May - reasoning being if it were before then Apple would have announced "first quarter of 2005", and any later then they risk missing their announced window with even the tiniest slip.
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Originally posted by nguzman
What will happen to the all new imac when OS X Tiger comes along?
By Spring 05, it'll be the old iMac and everyone will be going crazy wondering what will be in the new iMac. As for Tiger, the iMac will run it fine. Any iMac G4 and above will run it fine.
Originally posted by THT
By Spring 05, it'll be the old iMac and everyone will be going crazy wondering what will be in the new iMac. As for Tiger, the iMac will run it fine. Any iMac G4 and above will run it fine.
...and iMac G4 and below will run it quite fine.
Originally posted by GreggWSmith
I am running Tiger on a G3 400MHz powerbook and it runs well.
How come you have Tiger?
Originally posted by nguzman
How come you have Tiger?
ADC member would be the legal answer...
I have a feeling that everyone will be very surprised at the performance bump for the G5 iMac when Tiger is released.
Mike
G5 and the G4 are likely to benefit. So while 64 bit optimizations may have a place and could potentially offer improvements, we are likely to see significant gains even on older hardware.
Thanks
Dave
Originally posted by kenaustus
I think Tiger will increase 64 bit optimization which will only improve the performance of the G5 iMac. By the time it comes out there will also be more 3rd party software available, or nearing completion, that will utilize the G5 potential. A lot of third party development will be motivated by the demand for the G5 iMac, especially in a competitive market.
I have a feeling that everyone will be very surprised at the performance bump for the G5 iMac when Tiger is released.
Originally posted by imac600mhz
I think Tiger should have been included with the new imac or at least a voucher so you dont have to spend £99 to make it run how it should
What do you mean run like it should? It does run like it should, running apple's very latest OS offering, just like every other machine they sell.
I imagine you'd get a lot of ticked of people if apple included their developer preview OS and have it crashing folks computers all the time
Didn't the G5's first come out with Jaguar on it?
Originally posted by jwill
Didn't the G5's first come out with Jaguar on it?
Yes, but with a $29 update coupon.
The iMac G5 won't have that, unless you buy it early next year.
Originally posted by wizard69
It is not just the improvements to Tiger as an OS that will be helping out the G5. The hope is that Apple will upgrade to a significantly improved GCC compiler suite. If they rebuild the entire software package, that comprises MacOS/X, we are likely to see across the board performance inprovements.
Tiger will come with gcc 3.5, which will indeed bring significant performance enhancements.
However, Spotlight will slow things down at least a little bit.
Originally posted by Ptrash
JUST FMI, WHEN IS TIGER DUE OUT?
The official timeframe for Tiger to be released is the "first half of 2005". That's all we know.
Everyone seems to be expecting that to be around April/May - reasoning being if it were before then Apple would have announced "first quarter of 2005", and any later then they risk missing their announced window with even the tiniest slip.
Neil.
a.k.a. Arnel
Originally posted by Chucker
Tiger will come with gcc 3.5, which will indeed bring significant performance enhancements.
That's nice if you're writing applications...
What I'd like to see is OS X compiled entirely with IBM's compiler!
IBM's XL C/C++ Compiler
So it will be out on March 24, 2005
edit :: wrong year
Originally posted by Tom Mornini
That's nice if you're writing applications...
What I'd like to see is OS X compiled entirely with IBM's compiler!
IBM's XL C/C++ Compiler
Well, IBM doesn't provide compilers for ObjC and ObjC++ that I know of.
Originally posted by Chucker
Well, IBM doesn't provide compilers for ObjC and ObjC++ that I know of.
You'd think there would be a preprocessor to take ObjC into C?