Panther...what now??? |
May, 20, 2003 12:13 AM |
john.england |
From http://www.macosrumors.com 10.3 Panther may not include "Piles"....that's right, although Apple has done research into using the frequently discussed Piles, which are collections of files somewhat like a folder -- a cluster of icons which can be looked at quickly to determine the collection's contents, unlike a folder which has a standardized icon giving no hint as to the contents -- we have been lucky enough to see an early build of Panther that has many new features, some of which are surprising, but there is no support for Piles in the Finder as it stands as of last week's builds. What we saw in the brief few minutes our reporters were allowed to play with Panther is pretty heavily embargoed until more details of Panther become public, but for the time being we can definitely say that Panther is significantly faster across the board than Jaguar (10.2.x) on any system. As with previous releases, the differences are significantly greater on dual-processor systems with modern (Radeon or GeForce) AGP graphics cards....but they are quite noticeable even on the original Bondi Blue iMac G3/233. In all, we got to see Panther in action on seven separate Macs ranging from that iMac to Powerbook G3s and G4s, as well as a dual 1.42GHz PowerMac G4 and a Dual 1.33GHz Xserve. An install was attempted on a PowerMac 9600/200MP which has ran all the previous versions of Mac OS X...and we were surprised to discover that Panther simply would not install -- the installation CD would have a severe kernel panic on boot every time, whereas there was not a single problem with any other of the seven systems we installed Panther upon. |
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RE: Panther...what now??? |
May, 22, 2003 11:51 AM |
earlyd416 |
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Gabb, thanks to XPF, I am extending that buy farther out since I still have an 8600 (Powerlogix G4/450) and a 9600 (Sonnet G4/800) running X. Both do a very good job at it. This Summer I plan to get into some conversion of olde records, cassettes and home movies to a digital format. So, that will be the test as to whether I'll need a newer Mac. However, all my Office stuff runs fast enough for me. Especially after getting an ATTO UL2D and a couple of Seagate Cheetahs. As for surfing the web, I dunno what I do with a faster machine...probably have to upgrade my DSL. 8-) Hell! My wife's 3 year old Dell with a 433 Celeron is almost too fast for her. Why get more speed? Beach vacations are better. Bottomline: XPF has as many years left as long as Ryan keeps toiling away at making it work. Me a Happy Camper! --Dwight |
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RE: Panther...what now??? |
May, 21, 2003 2:43 PM |
gabb |
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i think next year will be the time for all of us to depart from the old world forever (if we want to use faster more effecient machines). I think starting this summer we will see some serious changes in the Mac platform, hardware and software wise, i think the new macs with the new chips and Panther will blow everybody away. unfortunatelty the Old World will be in our history. I just bought a SOnnet G4 800 Mhz PCI card with this in mind that I will only use it for a year at the most. I think we should all be ready for the new machines. Thank u Ryan, thanks you very much. Gabb |
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RE: Panther...what now??? |
May, 20, 2003 3:00 PM |
OSXGuru |
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Just to confirm what kbata says, there is no particular reason to worry right now. It's not surprising that XPostFacto will need some changes for Panther. Apple is saying that developers will get their hands on Panther at WWDC at the end of June. Once that happens, I'll be able to say more about how hard the changes are going to be. Until then, it's hard to know. Actually, the fact that they get as far as a kernel panic is reassuring--it could be worse :-) |
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RE: Panther...what now??? |
May, 20, 2003 8:13 AM |
kbata |
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Xpostfacto needed to be updated for the 10.1 update and the 10.2 update. It's no surprise that it wouldn't work at this point. So far Ryan's been able to make the changes needed to keep going. I wouldn't worry too much about it yet. |
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