What's New in Panther by Mark Pilgrim

Mark Pilgrim just posted a tour of Panther, the new Mac OS X release. I'm supposed to be getting in the office today so I'll be spending the weekend doing a fresh install and reading Mark's guide.

Update: Since Panther shipped today for many people, it appears that Mark's site is receiving a self-inflicted denial-of-service attack...

6 Comments

01. Mark - Oct 24, 2003 - 21:33

Thanks for the link. It's up at the moment, but it's still slow. Yes, traffic is through the roof. But it'll still be there tomorrow. :)

02. MostlyVowels - Oct 25, 2003 - 15:48

Aaaargh! Mark didn't address the main concern that was probably on lots of people's minds: does Panther's user interface feel snappier than Jaguar's?

Who cares about all the additional functionality anyway. We only need (the feeling of) speed ;-)

03. Jim OConnell - Oct 25, 2003 - 16:14

One little cool thing that I noticed in the beta I played with was that the text editor reads and writes MS Word documents.
Nice touch.

04. boris - Oct 26, 2003 - 05:54

MostlyVowels:
I installed it on my 800Mhz G3 iBook (384Mb RAM) and I am happy to report that, for the first time ever, an OS upgrade actually made the machine faster. Way faster. At least it seems so.

So yes. Get it. :)

05. Kevin Roderick - Oct 27, 2003 - 20:45

What about the reports of it trashing attached Firewire drives? That's the only thing holding me back. I plan a reformat-and-install-from-scratch install, because my OS X is flakey and has reached its half life, so I will back up everything on my hard drives, Firewire hard drives, before installing. If they get trashed, then everything will be gone!

06. Jim OConnell - Dec 09, 2003 - 06:06

Who cares about all the additional functionality anyway. We only need (the feeling of) speed ;-)

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