Hello, welcome to another episode of the ibook guy
[I] have been asked repeatedly to look back at some of the older [operating] systems and determine if they're actually obsolete today
[so] I'm going to do a little mini series on os 10.4 tiger and then leopard and then actually windows xp
We're going to find out if they're truly obsolete now
It's important to note that this video is being produced in November of 2013
So keep that in perspective if you're watching this a Few years from now now in this first video
I'm going to be doing os 10.4 tiger now
Keep in mind Tiger was first released back [in] 2005 which was over eight years ago
[it] was also made for powerPC and intel based systems, but I'm going to be using this intel based Mac mini for my testing I
Had to come up with a set of Criteria in order to judge these operating systems
So I decided to pick some of the most popular software applications and tasks and find out if they would work
I think without a doubt having a modern web browser should be at the top of [the] list so let's go straight to that
the Web browser
Situation on Tiger is in a sad state of affairs there are only three browsers that will really even work and all three of those
Browsers are out of date and no longer maintained your choices are
Firefox 3.6 to 8 Safari 4.13 and Camino 2.1 to
[Camino] is still the most up-to-date browser of the three
Available and even it is a year and a half out of date and is no longer maintained
However in all the tests I performed [Camino] was actually able to render every website
Perfectly, and there is one silver lining about web browsing on tiger
Ok I hate Adobe flash, and I'm truly amazed that it's still in news today
Unfortunately, I must grudgingly admit that it is a crucial part of the Modern web browsing experience
And it may be another Few years before it goes away
so the good news is the last release of
Flash for os 10 tiger was actually only four months ago back in july of 2013
so it's still pretty much up to date and [will] run most anything perfectly fine, so if you're still running tiger and
You use a combination of Camino and the latest version of flash you can get by on the internet pretty well
I my testing I was able to stream movies for Netflix and Hulu
Play games on Facebook and all the normal stuff that people do with pretty much no limitation
[it] might be a ticking time bomb though. I have no idea
How much longer that will continue as the browser and flash become more and [more] obsolete?
Okay, so what about itunes?
Well the latest version that you can get from your apple update is going [to] be itunes 7 which is horrendously [out-of-date] however
You can get itunes
91 using the link [provided] here directly from Apple unfortunately even that was made back [in] july 2010
And it's several years out of date
And most likely is not going to [operate] any of your newer iphones ipads ipods or any any of those types of things?
So what about an office suite?
Microsoft office 2008 is the latest version from Microsoft that will run on tiger now
That's really not too out of date after all the company
I work for all of our [windows] desktops is are still running office
2007 and we tend to get along just fine however if you like the free office suite from openoffice.org
The very latest and newest version will still run on 10.4 tiger with no problems
Ok so what about ilive now?
[I] life is a suite of a whole bunch of different applications from apple and it includes all kinds of stuff like
IDVd and
Imovie and Garageband
And the latest version of these things you can run on Tiger is
[Ilife] [o] 8 which several years old now what [that] means to you is going to vary greatly on your needs
For some people [ilife] o 8 is probably going to be perfectly fine
Other people are going to require the features and some of the newer versions and in which case is going to be a problem
So what if you need some?
virtualization software
The only thing I was able to get running was virtualbox
3.1 2 which was from November of 2009 however
I was able to get windows XP running inside of it and the irony about that is once
I got XP running inside a virtualbox. I was able to actually run a lot newer applications than what I could run natively on
os 10 tiger
Despite the fact that windows XP came out back in
2001 which puts it at a 12 year old operating system and seems to be more
Supported by modern applications, so it's important. Have a good media player program the newest thing
I was able to get working was vlc player zero nine. Ten which is several years old
I think is from july 2009 however. It was able to play pretty much everything
I could throw at it without any problems and as far as Skype goes sorry guys
It's just out of the question I couldn't get Skype working in any form or fashion whatsoever
So you might as well just forget running Skype on tiger, okay?
So what about a photo editing program if you like photoshop the last version you're going to be able to use is
CS4 which is several years old
[if] you need something newer you could probably run newer versions of gimp, but I know you know
It doesn't do all the same stuff [as] photoshop
now if this were my only computer, I would have to be able to run a bittorrent client and
unfortunately
This is a problem the newest thing. I could find was a version of transmission. That [was] several years old and
It actually works just fine on tiger
But the problem is it doesn't support magnet links which is what all the new torrent sites use so
Downloading a bit torrent is pretty much out of the question on tiger unless somebody can find a better bit or program. That's still compatible
[okay], so I think we can pretty much stop here. It's pretty obvious [that] Tiger is very obsolete
[but] I want to point out something if you're using an intel based machine in running tiger
It's automatically guaranteed that you'll be able to run either leopard or snow leopard assuming that you have enough memory
and
so there's definitely an upgrade path for you there and just moving up to [leopard] just the next operating system opens up a slew of
More modern programs that are going to run on your operating system. I
Would also like to point out in tigers defense though, it's a good operating system. It's fast it boots ridiculously fast
It has a very small memory footprint and it's very stable
I'd probably still be using it today if it weren't for the lack of Modern software
Supporting it and you know I personally prefer speed and stability
[overall] the new You know features of these operating systems that are coming out and so I'd probably still be using
[Tiger] if it were supported by all the modern software programs well, I hope you found the information useful
And I'll see you next time [in] the [video] about leopard and windows xp