OS X 10.3 Installed
Last Friday I came home from a long day at work and saw a small package sitting on my porch. I’ll be honest and tell ya I already knew what it was because I’d been tracking it from the second it was shipped from a warehouse in PA. It was my Panther (OS X 10.3) upgrade.
Grabbing the package and running inside to my PowerBook G4 laptop, everything I had in my arms just dropped to the floor as setting things in their place would just take too much time.
Installation was easy and I was up and running within a good 45 minutes.
My first reaction was - “This is amazing!”. There are so many new little features with Expose & Fast User Switching being my favorites.
Overall I like it but there is one thing Apple changed that will take a bit to get used too. They made everything with a brushed-metal look and feel. Now, the brushed-metal was great when used for applications (Safari, iPhoto, iSync, iTunes, etc…) but when they moved it to the normal file managing windows - some sort of window distinction/usability rule was broke. I know I’m not the only one with these feelings and if history has shown us anything, someone will come out with a hack that will allow the end user to change styles back to their desired state.
If you haven’t upgraded to Panther - it’s nice and definitely helps me work faster in areas but if you’re just a casual user that surfs the web and checks your email, I’d save your $129.00 for a little bit.
For more information, read Mark Pilgrim’s words on Panther.
corvinedesign Says:
did you back up your contents before the upgrade. People keep telling me to do it before I install . did you?