operating system goodness
Mac OS X 10.3 “Panther” was released tonight.
I’ve been running Beta 7B85 of Panther (the version that became “gold master” and the retail release) for about a week and a half now. I’m very impressed - its very fast, overall. I’d say about 30-50% faster for some operations than 10.2 “Jaguar”. Machine here at home is a dual-867 G4 “Mirrored Drive Door” tower with GeForce 4MX video and 2G of RAM.
Gotta wait till next week (payday) to fork out the $129 for my official retail-release copy, though.
October 25th, 2003 at 4:23 am
So is it really worth $129? The main feature I see that I’d pay hard-earned money for is “Exposé” (named no doubt after a certain South Congress landmark). Okay, I wouldn’t mind having FileVault and fast user switching, too. But $129?
And it looks like they still don’t include some essentials, like a built-in backup utility. Some days I think the folks at Apple are only marginally less idiotic than the people in Redmond.
October 25th, 2003 at 4:28 am
It’s definitely worth it - its as much faster than 10.2 as 10.2 was over, say, 10.0 initial release. I like the new Finder, expose’ is usable (bound it to my middle mouse button), etc. They rolled Disk Copy into Disk Utility, though, which confused me for a couple seconds.