[muglo] Re: Panther
- From: 'TDK' Tim Kearn <kearn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 20:50:12 -0400
Sounds promising Eric;
Curious as to what the screen resolution was - does Panther support
800x600?
Wondering if this is on the way out with new Apple products and OS's
(ie iMovie 3 *does not* support 800x600 which keeps me at iMovie 2 for
my Clamshell iBook)
Tim
On Friday, August 1, 2003, at 05:31 PM, Eric D. wrote:
> Wow, does Panther ever look hot.
>
> I just took possession (for the grand total of 4 hours) of a PowerBook
> G3
> Lombard/333 (Bronze keyboard in Apple's bizarre lingo) which had OS X
> 10.3
> installed on it. When I first booted it up I was very confused,
> thinking
> that the person had installed some funny extension to make the menus
> look
> different (and behave faster).
>
> The lines that delineated different parts of a menu in OS 9 are
> back!!! The
> menu draws are quite a bit faster, and screen draws are noticeably
> faster.
>
> The new Finder looks horrible (I wish Apple would go to hell with their
> damned brushed metal look), but the windows can at least be moved
> around
> quite a bit faster than in OS X 10.2 (and this all despite running in
> 128 MB
> of RAM and on a 333 MHz CPU). The window moving around on the 333 felt
> as
> smooth as on an 867 PB G4!
>
> Also, the System Preferences panes have been completely redesigned.
> Screen
> saver and displays are now one item (quite a bit more logical than the
> 10.2
> layout) and a number of other things looked different (I had 2.5 hours
> in
> which to set up a computer so had only a minute or two to play with
> 10.3
> before wiping it off the disk (I'd love to play with it but I really
> can't
> afford that kind of downtime at the moment)... and, anyone who's
> installed
> OS 9.2.2, OS X 10.2.6 and all the affiliated updates knows that's a
> pretty
> tight timeline).
>
> This sneak preview has really whet my appetite for Panther. I want it
> *now*.
>
> Alas, I had to format the disk and install OS 9.2.2/OS X 10.2.6. The
> computer was destined for a computer novice (and Mac virgin) and she's
> off
> to university in September so I didn't think it wise to have a
> developer
> preview on her computer whilst she's learning the ins and outs of Mac
> OS ;).
>
> PS Damn, G3 laptops are getting to be quite cheap. Now is the time to
> buy if
> you want a G3 laptop -- $700-800 is what a base Pismo is now worth!!!
> I paid
> a premium to get this computer and it was only $600 (besides, $600 was
> *waaaaay* below what we were expecting to pay for a Lombard when I
> first
> suggested she go with a Mac laptop a month ago). It had a paltry 128
> MB of
> RAM but it was in good condition and the fellow even dropped it off
> (plus, I
> had the bonus experience of experiencing Panther (although, I guess I
> shouldn't be doing that on someone else's dime ;)).
>
> Eric.
>
>
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