After fifteen years, I’m paying for it. Sure, I could be patient, and maybe get it for free later, but I want it now — and am willing to fork over cash to get it. So, with a satisfying click of the mouse, it’s mine.
After fifteen years, I’m paying for it. Sure, I could be patient, and maybe get it for free later, but I want it now — and am willing to fork over cash to get it. So, with a satisfying click of the mouse, it’s mine.
What is it? It’s Panther, of course, the newest release of the Mac OS X operating system. I just pre-ordered my very own copy of Panther to arrive the day it’s released from Apple.
I’ve been running Panther (build 7B74) for a few weeks now, and it’s quite impressive. There are lots of little flourishes, and as I use it, I discover myself smiling at how much attention has been paid to the new release.
The biggest — and most pleasing — surprise is Panther’s speed. Panther is faster than Jaguar, even on my rather outmoded golem of a desktop machine. A little paranoid, I opted against installing the Panther seeds on my PowerBook, and instead upgraded my modified Blue and White (originally a G3, the machine now runs a G4 450 MHz ZIF upgrade with 640 MB of memory). Small hiccups and delays are now gone, and every application, whether Apple wrote it or not, starts faster. Panther’s granted salvation to a soon-to-be doorstop.
With Panther’s official release just a week away now, I find myself counting down the days, anxious to get the new OS onto my 1 GHz, 1 GB PowerBook to see what Panther can do…
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