An in depth technical review of Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger"

For those of you, like me, who like to read a little bit more than just your average review of a project, you might be interested to read John Siracusa's latest Mac OS X review of Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" [1]. One of the hidden gems of this review comes in section 14 (…yes I did say 14!…) which says:

"Why develop something as impressive as Quartz 2D Extreme and then leave it turned off by default? My inquiries to Apple have gone unanswered, so I can only speculate about the reasoning behind this decision. My best guess is that all of the bugs could not be excised from Q2DE in time for Tiger's launch date, and that it will be enabled by default in a subsequent update—perhaps as early as version 10.4.1."

Read the complete review to work out the significance of this comment!

[1] http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars