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Mac OS X 10.3 Panther [OLD VERSION] Reviews

Doesn't crash like Windows, stays stable through updates and works like a dream. Very simple to use and very elegant. The Best OS ever.

Good opperating system but has some bugs in it like when you are running Safari and iTunes at the same time it causes emergency shut downs on your computer. Would recomend getting the newer version like 10.4 of 10.5 when it comes out.

The usability is great along with the robustness. The looks of it is just incredible. I came up with my own saying: "Once you go mac, you'll never go back". I switched over from Windows and never thought of switching back. This OS is one of the best I've used in years. I gave this OS 4 stars because of Safari and it's inability to print selected portions of a website with time stamp and address, other than that it's great. It's never crashed on me except when I was using faulty audio hardware device.

THE BEST SOFTWARE FOR MY OLD IMAC.1998. MR B IT WORKS AND SMOOTH OPERATION. THANK YOU STEVE JOBS AND APPLE.

It merely makes opening a new application far too time-consuming. The 10.3.9 combination update seemed to make both machines slow down. I have installed Panther (10.3.2) on two computers, my own B&W that now sports an Encore 1 GHz G4 processor, and my husband's 733 MHz Quicksilver, and we had no problemsnot until we started downloading Apple's updates. While OS 9 and its predecessors didn't crash anywhere near as often (or as badly) as their Windows equivalents, I haven't had Panther crash at all. 2. 3. 5. 1.

If, however, you find you absolutely need to update many of your oft-used pieces of software, you might as well take the plunge. Mind you, now that Tiger is out you'd probably be best going straight to that. 3. 7. But it's very hard to ignore a voice. After several months of using Panther I still don't care for it. It's good to be able to use all my old software. My gripes:.

Safari 1.3 quits if I hit the close window button. If a third-party developer can do it, surely Apple can. This probably has more to do with the machines than with Panther. All I did was put the CD in the DVD or CD rewriter, hit the install button, let the machine restart from the CD, reformat the hard drive with OS X's Disk Utility, start the install and leave the installer to do its work. I miss the ability to configure the apple menu the way I want it.

5. Well, that depends. Panther is so stable. After all, OS 9 wasn't considered the best OS of its time for nothing. First, I would like to state that I have used Macintoshes since May 1986 and would rather own an old, slow, second-hand Mac than have to grapple with any version of Windows, including XP. Action Utilities had a similar, though much plainer, feature, and I didn't like that either. First impressions, coming straight to Panther from OS 9, weren't entirely favourable.

Should you upgrade to Panther. I have no idea how badly it has affected the Quicksilver (with 512 MB RAM) because I don't get to use it enough (I just get to do all the "techie" stuff on it *G*) but the slowness of the B&W (with 364 MB RAM) has become unbearable and I think I need to return to 10.3.2. There's absolutely no reason for anyone who can't afford a new Mac to switch to a PC. Please. It gave me a peculiar sense of claustrophobia.

Old applications work noticeably slower in Classic than when our machines are booted in OS 9. I love being able to get my Mac to tell me the time on the hour. I know I can hide it, but what's the point. This happens on both my B&W and the Quicksilver.

Yes I know: very strange. How about allowing us to make short cuts for ANYTHING, Apple. 6. I didn't like the dock at all. (Power-on Software confirmed that they will not be releasing an OS X version of AU). I especially miss the way Action Utilities allowed me to navigate anywhere on my hard drive from this menu. I can see the point of the dock for newcomers to the Macintosh environment (particularly those who are also first-time computer users) and for this reason I wouldn't want Apple to get rid of it.

I don't understand why some people have had trouble with OS X. It's actually very nifty if you have more than one hard disk, or several partitions. Even Word 5.1 (from 1992) and Quicken 5 (1994) work in Classic. It isn't easy to work out how OS X works, as it was with OS 9 and its predecessors, which didn't have invisible files. I desperately needed something more able to catch my attention than a mere sound, which I soon found my brain was all too capable of stopping my ears from hearing. It's virtually a word processing program. There's no doubt that Panther's interface is very elegant (the dock notwithstanding). Now, if I can install Panther on a machine with a bus as slow as the B&W, and a processor that isn't even supported by Apple, why are others having trouble on newer, faster machines.

4. I would have asked for it to be hidden all the time but for its calendar, which I found mildly useful. Why do some have to be invisible anyway. Or maybe I should try more RAM first. Mail is fantastic, though it took me a little while to get used to after so many years of Outlook Express. However, once I asked for column display I soon got used to this feature. I miss the Action Utilities user-configurable short cutsespecially the ones that allowed me to open an application or switch between applications: e.g., control-p to open or switch to Photoshop, control-shift-p for PageMaker, control-q for Quicken, control-a for Acrobat.

The good things:. What could be easier. The only feature I miss from OE is the name and email address of the sender and the size of the incoming email (in the Activities window). There ARE keyboard shortcuts in Panther, but they allow the user only to change the shortcuts of menu items that already have shortcuts. At first I had trouble coping with the way windows open on the desktop. I have no idea why this feature wasn't incorporated into the Mac OS long ago.

4. 7. 6. TextEdit is head, shoulders and even more above Simpletext.

1. :-(. I suspect the version shipping with Tiger is even more so. I will download trials of almost anything (that's how I landed up buying Action Utilities) and it's been absolutely ages since there was anything new to try in OS 9. I wish Apple would make all OS X's files visible. We probably did so before we were really ready, but my husband wanted to transfer his video tapes onto DVD and I tend to be a download freak.

And it was so much better with Action Utilities, just as OS 7.6 (another great Mac OS) was better with Now Utilities. Just as well it's not working in OS 9 because at least I don't have to restart my machine. 2. As for clicking on an alias in the dock, that's way too slow. Bring back a user-configurable apple menu, please, Apple. The iLife suite of applications is awesomeextremely good value-for-money, especially if you are a keen photographer and want a decent application (iPhoto) for displaying photos and even fixing faults in them, are into making your own movies, transferring ones you already have on tape onto DVDs (iMovie and iDVD), creating your own music (GarageBand), downloading music from the iTunes store (or anywhere else) or even just turning your own CDs into MP3s for your iPod (iTunes).

The command-tab feature (which was also part of OS 9) just isn't as fast. In some cases it might also be the sheer age of the software (made for pre-Power PC processors). If Apple would only provide user-configurable short cuts to open/switch between applications, or a user-configurable apple menupreferably boththose of us who don't like taking our fingers off the keys just to open a new application could keep the dock hidden all the time. It's tidier than clicking on aliases on the desktop, but that's about all.