[G4] Panther: To upgrade or not...

[CJ Scaminaci]

Of course! Panther brings great speed increases to Mac OSX. Personally, 
it's worth it for me for XCode seeing as I develop software, but I 
don't see why anyone wouldn't want to upgrade. Except for the fact that 
in the current box sets Apple is selling, in half of them CD 2 is bad. 
It has a visible defect in it causing the install to fail. So, I'm 
waiting until those sets are sold out and the defect is fixed until I 
buy my copy.

CJ
On Thursday, October 30, 2003, at 06:34  PM, Eric Volker wrote:

> Can anyone give me a compelling reason to upgrade to Panther from 
> 10.2.8? The only feature that really appeals to me is threaded e-mail, 
> and that hardly seems worth $100+. Expose also sounds interesting, but 
> doesn't seem to be worth the price of admission. Would there be any 
> performance gains on my slightly decrepit Quicksilver 2002 800Mhz? 
> Going to 10.2.8 already improved system responsiveness, and a further 
> bump would be welcome. The applications I typically use are Safari, 
> Mail, iTunes, iPhoto, Cellulo, Neverwinter Nights and occasionally 
> Toast. I've also set my G4 up as a  wireless base station with 40-bit 
> encryption, and share my broadband connection with my Dell laptop. 
> Given that profile, would I really derive any benefit from Panther?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric Volker
> ebv1 at charter.net
>
>
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