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Mac OS X version 10.4 "Tiger" is the fifth and latest major release of Mac OS X for Apple's Macintosh computers, and released to the public on April 29, 2005. It was preceded by Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther". Apple CEO Steve Jobs previewed Tiger in his keynote speech at the Worldwide Developers Conference on June 28, 2004, he previewed some of the new features including Spotlight, Dashboard and Automator. Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" costs $129 USD (£88.99 GBP); there is no upgrade price available for existing Mac OS X 10.3 "Panther" users. Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced at the Worldwide Developers Conference on June 6, 2005, that almost two million copies had sold in the six weeks since its release.

History

Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" was originally previewed by Apple CEO Steve Jobs in his keynote speech at the Worldwide Developers Conference on June 28, 2004. Later in December 2004, several non-commercial developer releases of Tiger were leaked onto the Internet. As a result Apple sued the file sharers who were distributing Tiger for free by using BitTorrent. On April 12, 2005, it was announced that Tiger would be officially released worldwide on April 29. All Apple Stores around the world held Tiger seminars, presentations and demos.

On June 6, 2005, at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, it was revealed that Mac OS X had, for the past five years (i.e. since its birth), been engineered to work with Intel's x86 line of processors in addition to the PowerPC, the CPU that the operating system had always been publicly marketed for. A future release of OS X 10.4 will provide preliminary developer support for the x86 CPU and the IA-32 instruction set. Apple announced plans to release the first x86-based computers in June of 2006, transitioning the rest of their computers to x86 by June 2007. On January 10, 2006, almost six months ahead of schedule, Apple released their first iMac and MacBookPro featuring an Intel Core Duo processor.

10.4 is the first version of OS X to be supplied on a DVD rather than on CDs although the DVD can be exchanged through Apple for CDs at an extra cost.

New features

Apple advertises that OS X 10.4 Tiger has over 200 new features , including:

Spotlight
- Spotlight is a powerful full-text and metadata search engine, which can search everything from Word documents to iCal calendars to Address Book cards, as well as any text within PDF files. The feature is also used to build the concept of smart folders into the Finder
. Spotlight will index files as they are saved, so they can be quickly and easily found through a search-as-you-type box in the menu bar.
iChat AV - The new iChat AV 3.0 in Tiger supports up to four participants in a video conference and ten participants in an audio conference. It also now supports communication using the Jabber protocol. A Jabber server called iChat Server is included on Mac OS X Tiger Server.
Safari RSS
- The new Safari 2.0 web browser in Tiger features a built-in reader for RSS and Atom web syndication that can be accessed easily from an RSS button in the address bar of the web browser window. An updated version of Safari, included as part of the free Mac OS 10.4.3 update, can also pass the Acid2 web standards test.
Mail 2
- The new version of Mail.app email client included in Tiger featured an updated interface, "Smart Mailboxes" that utilize the Spotlight search system, parental controls, as well as several other features.

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