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Pretty Pleased with Panther

by C.K. Sample, III Apr 20th 2005 at 8:35AM

tiger meowMy article, Pretty Pleased with Panther, is up and running over at Apple Matters. The article is an opinion piece where I muse about the past year and a few months with Panther. I think Panther has been a great OS that has served me very well, and while I am looking forward to Tiger, I don't think it's going to be the same breakthrough-OS in stability that Panther was, and I'm not looking forward to the inevitable bugs that will pop-up in the early iterations of the OS.

Here's the intro snippet: "With Tiger right around the corner, I thought it would be a good idea to take a look back at the year (and a few months) of Panther. Overall, I’d have to say that I have been very pleased with Panther, and, perhaps as a result, I’m not feeling overly jazzed about Tiger. Don’t get me wrong. I’m interested to see many of the Tiger improvements; however, a good handful of these improvements are already possible in Panther with the help of a few 3rd party gems. And the few things that I despise about the Mac OS X interface don’t show much sign of changing when Tiger comes out." Give it a read and let me know what you think.  Will you miss Panther?
 

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Kerry Sanders

I am looking forward to all features of Tiger, but then again, I have not made the switch as of yet. I am holding off to see if Apple makes any hardware announcements next week. I don't particularly want to do a software upgrade, so hopefully it will be preinstalled.

April 21 2005 at 2:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chris


Dashboard widgets are also separate little entities that you can delete/add at will.
In fact, you can run Dashboard widgets in a browser window if you like as they are really just little web pages. Personally, I can't wait for Tiger. This is partly my natural inclination to always want to try new OSs. It's also the number of nifty new things to try out and play with. While the advancements of Tiger may seem minor to some the advancements to 3rd party apps could well be phenomenal. That, and Spotlight is just the bean. Heck, even development of Quicksilver for Panther stops with the release of Tiger and future versions will only work with Tiger.

April 20 2005 at 4:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Porchland

I always get swept up in the newness factor -- I even get some kind of weird thrill out of running Software Update -- so I'm sure I'll upgrade and HOPE that Virtual PC for Mac will work when I reinstall it. If it doesn't, I'll be pretty well screwed until Microsoft brings out a patch.

April 20 2005 at 2:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
dave

Re: Konfabulator v. Dashboard - Having used both, the difference frankly is in refinement. Dashboard is just much, much slicker and it doesn't seem to leak memory left and right unlike. Additionally, I'm not sure I agree with your assertion that only Konfab's widgets are separate from the OS, as Dashboard widgets are also separate little entities that you can delete/add at will.

April 20 2005 at 12:46 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jeff Seifert

I'm not planning to upgrade either. I'm pretty satisfied with Panther, and out of the 200 advertised improvements of Tiger, I can't find a single one that's a "must have" for me. I'll save my $129 for the 10.5 release.

April 20 2005 at 11:07 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Cadmium

I stopped reading the article when he said the finder in Cocoa would be faster.

April 20 2005 at 10:58 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
tom

Quicksilver vs. Spotlight: I agree with you, I am a Quicksilver user and I just can't see myself using spotlight that often, if at all. I do, however, think that spotlight integration into various applications will be really nice. Konfabulator vs. Dashboard: I am looking forward to Dashboard, but only for the fact that, although knowing about Konfabulator for the past couple of months, I never gave it a try. iChatAV vs. Adium: Right now, I use Adium, not iChatAV. I have tried a ton of different instant messaging applications, for both OS X and Windows, I have even written a couple of my own out of sheer frustration, and Adium is by far, the best IM application I have ever used. Tell me one thing, why doesn't iChatAV let you have your own account show on your buddy list? Safari vs. Firefox (haha, sorry): After giving Safari a try over the past week, I will definitely give Safari RSS a shot, so I guess I'll see how that goes. For now, I am still a faithful Firefox user.

April 20 2005 at 10:13 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jonathan Schroeder

I won't miss panther because im not losing it just yet. From what ive read i probably won't be able to justify the tiger upgrade until 10.5 African Whooping Cat comes out...I wish i had multiple macs, or an external, but i am cheap and don't want to dish out the cash.

April 20 2005 at 9:29 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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