[CUBE] Panther

[David Lambourn]

Marty,

I suppose your decision will depend upon what you are using the Cube 
for.

I use a variety of  wordprocessors for different kinds of writing Nisus 
Express, Z-Write, MacJournal, TextEdit, Mellel - including weird, since 
my employer now requires me to use a very complicated template.
I use excel for similar reasons, but otherwise use AW for spreadsheets 
- my own stuff is simple.
iTunes, Toast, VueScan, EndNote, FileMaker, AddressBook, FirstClass, 
Merriam-Webster Dictionary, StickyBrain, UltraLingua.
Firewire: scanner, HD for bootable back-up.
USB for Iomega 250 data backups, keyboard through Griffin (I use my old 
SE30 keyboard for preference) and shortly, for digital camera, but 
cannot yet report on that.

I changed from 10.2.8 to Panther (now 10.3.2) having earlier updated 
the firmware and haven't looked back. Classic hasn't booted since 
except for an exploration - all my regular software now runs in X.

I have abandoned Eudora, iCab and Palm Desktop in favour of Apple Mail, 
Safari (for choice, but others when pressed) and iCal. (though I am 
dabbling with the idea of trying something other for iCal which I find 
I do not use as much as did Palm Desktop.)

Not a power user, just a jobbing hack, but I am very pleased I made the 
change - rock solid - significantly quicker than the original X but 
still slower than 9. a pleasure to use - but don't load all the fonts 
unless you need them, they get distributed like litter in a tornado - 
takes ages to tidy it, even with the additional font tools in Panther.

Hardware: 500MHz, 1GB RAM, HD IBM-IC35L060AVER07-0 60MB, CD MATSHITA 
CD-RW CW-7121, UMAX Astra 6400 scanner

Hope this helps.

David