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Ars Technica Posts Panther Review

Posted by pudge on from the it-both-sucks-and-blows dept.

Nexum writes "Today Ars released their latest Mac OS X review, this time for Max OS X 10.3 Panther. It's great to see another tour de force from the Ars guys. They have, as usual, an excellent insight into the new OS release, and they also cover that burning question 'is it worth $129?,' and Panther seems to come out rather well. Certainly worth a read."

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  1. When is Apple going to hire this guy? by spankalee · · Score: 5, Interesting

    His ideas about the Finder and filesystem are pretty dead on. I wish Apple would bring him on board.

    At the very least they could shamelessly steal his ideas. They're there for the taking.

  2. The speed... the speed by spoot · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Expose is nice. Good eye candy. Fast user switching works pretty good. But the real bottom line is the speed. Let's face it, the real drawback of X has always been it was just dog slow. Just booting back into 9 was a reminder of how slow X was. Panther is faster on my daughters G3 ibook, my dual G4 and tibook. Is it worth a 130 bucks? Yes. With the cevat: Only if I didn't have to pay a hundred and thirty bucks last year.

    Pretty good review all in all. Not sure I completely agree with his finding on the finder. But I do agree that Apple seems to be fumbling around looking for something that clicks on the desktop.