Tiger Installed

Just finished installing.  I threw caution to the wind and did a simple update without any preparation whatsoever. 

For the most part, it worked nicely.  I started the installation at 2:15 EST.  At 2:20, after scanning to make sure the installation DVD was okay, the Core Installation began.  By 2:58, the installation was done and optimizing began.  The Powerbook rebooted at 2:59:59 EST.  At 3:02 EST, the computer had booted and I was presented with a blue screen and my mouse worked, but nothing else.  I was panicked for a few minutes, but I kept telling myself, "Be cool. Be patient. 
Be cool."

At 3:04 EST, the Desktop came up and the setup and registration screens launched.  Whew!

First impressions (to be followed with more details later): it looks nice. Something is different about the fonts.  I've already received the spinning beach ball of death a few times. I haven't been able to test much yet, as Mail.app took quite some time to import my 14,132 messages, and every other time I go to use Spotlight I am met with a notice that it is indexing my Powerbook. 

So, it works, it looks nice, and I'm still excited; however, if you were expecting Tiger to be the virtual nirvana of operating systems, be ready to be slightly disappointed: it's not
quite perfection.