I neglected to mention earlier that I indeed got Tiger, that is Mac OS X 10.4.1, while Donna and the girls were up in Dallas. It's been a month now, and so I can provide some first impressions:
- The interface is cleaner. If only all of the OS would standardize on one window style, it would be better.
- Spotlight is not as useful as I thought it would be. Mostly because it does not work very well with iPhoto 4.
- I'm using Dashboard a lot more than I thought I would. It's easy to jump there to track a package or check the weather.
- Mail is not as offensively ugly as I thought it would be. It is definitely more useful, so it's minor loss of attractiveness is not as noticeable.
- It seems slightly faster.
Overall, I'm happy with the purchase. Now if I could just figure out how to get my custom Xcode-developed Automator action to work, I'd be psyched.