Like the vast majority of Mac users I’m not one to run out and buy the latest upgrade. I figure whatever came on my latest Mac is adequate, after all if it wasn’t good enough I wouldn’t have bought the Mac in the first place.
I strayed from my usual course and bought Panther. Not out of some overwhelming urge to be on the cutting edge but out of hope of reviving an iBook. No luck. But since Panther was not humming along on the iBook I could slap it on the G4 tower without feeling like I was abusing the licensing.
I like the results, Panther is speedy and there are a plethora of little nicities that make it better than Jaguar. Panther looks better, seems faster, perfectly stable blah, blah, blah. (G4 specs: OWC 1Ghz upgrade, 704 Mb, Rage 128, hard drives, yadda, yadda, yadda)
But a $129 better than Jaguar? You’re kidding. There’s no way that Panther is worth fifty bucks more than Jaguar. Hell it’s not really worth twenty bucks more than Jaguar. It is worth a download, but that’s about it. On the other hand if you’re using 9 or 10.1 then Panther is worth, roughly, five hundred bucks or a kidney (whichever you’d rather part with).
To sum up: If you’ve got Jaguar then save your Franklin, Jackson, Lincoln and four George Washingtons towards the purchase of a new Mac. If not, splurge.
The thing I’d really like to see at MacWorld is a new graphing calculator, I miss the old one. Hey, some folks like math and pretty graphs.
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