Last I night Tigerized. I'd been putting it off until the project plate was slightly less full, but Panther had been flakey of late and, honestly, is there ever a time when my project plate is not beginning to crack from its burden?

I imaged the drive yesterday, and so armed opted for a standard upgrade in situ, rather than the theoretically cleaner "archive and install" option. Aside from the glacial timeframes disk imaging lives within, the upgrade itself only took about 45 minutes. I doodled and plotted world domination on index cards while watching the upgrade scripts do their thing.

Everything seems to be rocking post-install, with minimal effort:

• Max/MSP/Jitter needed upgraded PACE extensions
• A minor issue with my wireless network of preference not automatically connecting on boot or awakening was dealt with by simply duplicating network settings and deleting the old slot
• Printing wasn't happening: reset the printing system, repair disk permissions and I'm sorted

F12ing to the Dashboard for basic tasks like hitting wikipedia, working out international times, searching maxobjects.com or dictionary.com, tailing the system log... one of the best Apple innovations ever. I'm hooked. Then there's the Oblique Strategies widget getting thorough use. Spotlight == wonderful. It's already saved me at least an hour searching for various bits of code, emails and Max abstractions.

I wasn't planning on upgrading for at least another month, but now I'm sorry I waited.