In Tiger I could open a window full of MP3's select one and hit the little play bar underneath it to listen. In Leopard you cannot do this as it uses preview and the minute you move away from that window to another window and the song stops playing. I'd use iTunes, but it eats CPU power and with only 450MHz G4 at my disposal I need every spare CPU cycle.
However in Leopard is absolutely love being able to open a folder of images, hit the spacebar and view them.
That being said both Tiger and Leopard have the feature of being able to do a slideshow of a folder full of images. I still prefer the quick look method however. Simply because quick look works with almost any file type and can be extended with plugins. Now if I could have quick look but disable it specifically for MP3's so I could use the Tiger method of having Quicktime play the file for me, then I could have the best of both worlds.
Since my G4 is not my main machine, security updates don't matter to me as much as they used to simply because I practice safe computing, have nothing of consequence on that machine and can't really get all hot and bothered about the possibility of a rootkit or keylogger being installed on the machine. At most they might get my password for a few forums. Nothing terribly important.
Back on track though, I love my Sawtooth. Everything from the case design to running OS X on what I consider to be an exotic non-x86 CPU. Mine came with the built in Zip 100 drive which I actually do use on occasion which saves me from installing a PCI SCSI controller and busting out the external SCSI Zip 100 drive. That and the machine runs darn near dead quiet. I can barely tell when it is on. At some time in the future I might slap in a faster G4 for it but I am limited to single core G4's as my motherboard does not support dual core processors. Again however since this is not my main machine, any upgrade from the 450MHz G4 I have in there now will be more than acceptable. Couple that with a faster Radeon and the 1.5GB of RAM I have installed and it should be pretty snappy machine for me.
Oh and I can still boot into OS 9 should the need for a spatial finder, platinum, and retro-ness hit me.
However in Leopard is absolutely love being able to open a folder of images, hit the spacebar and view them.
That being said both Tiger and Leopard have the feature of being able to do a slideshow of a folder full of images. I still prefer the quick look method however. Simply because quick look works with almost any file type and can be extended with plugins. Now if I could have quick look but disable it specifically for MP3's so I could use the Tiger method of having Quicktime play the file for me, then I could have the best of both worlds.
Since my G4 is not my main machine, security updates don't matter to me as much as they used to simply because I practice safe computing, have nothing of consequence on that machine and can't really get all hot and bothered about the possibility of a rootkit or keylogger being installed on the machine. At most they might get my password for a few forums. Nothing terribly important.
Back on track though, I love my Sawtooth. Everything from the case design to running OS X on what I consider to be an exotic non-x86 CPU. Mine came with the built in Zip 100 drive which I actually do use on occasion which saves me from installing a PCI SCSI controller and busting out the external SCSI Zip 100 drive. That and the machine runs darn near dead quiet. I can barely tell when it is on. At some time in the future I might slap in a faster G4 for it but I am limited to single core G4's as my motherboard does not support dual core processors. Again however since this is not my main machine, any upgrade from the 450MHz G4 I have in there now will be more than acceptable. Couple that with a faster Radeon and the 1.5GB of RAM I have installed and it should be pretty snappy machine for me.
Oh and I can still boot into OS 9 should the need for a spatial finder, platinum, and retro-ness hit me.