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Favorite Edition of OS X?
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I voted Jaguar, just cos networking with Windows machines was so easy. It's been broken since Panther, or, at least, not as easy.
Tiger is great, but I loved Jaguar. There's a sticker for Jaguar on the top of my powermac... "Stunning, Cunning, and always running."
Tiger is great, but I loved Jaguar. There's a sticker for Jaguar on the top of my powermac... "Stunning, Cunning, and always running."
Oy!! No option for Mac OS X Server 1.0 (Rhapsody)?? 
That was the first one I played with...
I voted for Tiger. And when Leopard comes, that'll surely be my choice.
That was the first one I played with...
I voted for Tiger. And when Leopard comes, that'll surely be my choice.
Yes, that is correct:
10.0 Cheetah
10.1 Puma
10.2 Jaguar (or Jagwire... )
10.3 Panther
10.4 Tiger
10.5 Leopard
The ironic thing is that the Cheetah is the fastest land animal, but absolutely not the fastest OS.
10.0 Cheetah
10.1 Puma
10.2 Jaguar (or Jagwire...
)10.3 Panther
10.4 Tiger
10.5 Leopard
The ironic thing is that the Cheetah is the fastest land animal, but absolutely not the fastest OS.
Gotta be the public beta!
No, only kidding. I voted 10.3 because that saw the introduction of Expose (which I still contend is one of the best productivity tools ever introduced for working with multiple files and multiple apps).
However, 10.2 would come a close second, being the first (IMHO) usable version of OS X.
No, only kidding. I voted 10.3 because that saw the introduction of Expose (which I still contend is one of the best productivity tools ever introduced for working with multiple files and multiple apps).
However, 10.2 would come a close second, being the first (IMHO) usable version of OS X.
I'd say both Tiger and Panther over Jaguar.
Panther: Expose!
Tiger: A lot of new stuffs added which is very useful such as:
on Safari, if u want to send the webpage to your friend, hit CMD + I and then send it.
Dashboard: very useful info and I wish Florida have webcams for Toll 408 and 417 Expressway!!!!! (In Orlando so I will know if traffic is jammed or not)
And approx. 200+ I like in Tiger!
Panther: Expose!
Tiger: A lot of new stuffs added which is very useful such as:
on Safari, if u want to send the webpage to your friend, hit CMD + I and then send it.
Dashboard: very useful info and I wish Florida have webcams for Toll 408 and 417 Expressway!!!!! (In Orlando so I will know if traffic is jammed or not)
And approx. 200+ I like in Tiger!
Mac OS X gets better with each release (other than some instability issues that are eventually ironed out). Perhaps the question is which edition was the most "wow."
Although 10.0 was very experimental, it represented the biggest and most impressive leap since 1.0. A lot of features were missing, it was slow, it wasn't all that stable, but it was still amazing.
10.1 was the first "usable" OS X, nothing too major to add beyond that.
10.2 moved toward faster and more feature complete package, the first "good" OS X.
10.3 spoiled us with Expose with some major performance boost and updates to just about every applications within OS X. It's probably the most "mature" OS X.
Aside from Spotlight, 10.4 is more notable for what's not visible -- powerful Core libraries. Although it is the "best" OS X to date, it really is more transitional release, getting developers to understand Universal Binary, Core libraries, etc. But its potential is not yet realized, most of which will be unveiled in about a month at WWDC.
Although 10.0 was very experimental, it represented the biggest and most impressive leap since 1.0. A lot of features were missing, it was slow, it wasn't all that stable, but it was still amazing.
10.1 was the first "usable" OS X, nothing too major to add beyond that.
10.2 moved toward faster and more feature complete package, the first "good" OS X.
10.3 spoiled us with Expose with some major performance boost and updates to just about every applications within OS X. It's probably the most "mature" OS X.
Aside from Spotlight, 10.4 is more notable for what's not visible -- powerful Core libraries. Although it is the "best" OS X to date, it really is more transitional release, getting developers to understand Universal Binary, Core libraries, etc. But its potential is not yet realized, most of which will be unveiled in about a month at WWDC.
I vote Panther because that was my first real experience with OS X switching from OS 9 and 8.6. Secondly it looks good, and it runs on my PowerBook. I was disapointed with Tiger because it ran like crappola on my eMac so I had to buy extra ram. But now its fine.
As much as it pains me to do so, I have to vote Panther on this one.
Although I use Tiger and I like it alot, it's been, imo, the sloppiest version of OS X to date. 10.4 rolled out with numerous little bugs present, and, even though none of them were really show-stoppers (at least for me), nevertheless there they were. It took until at least 10.4.4 to get a scrolling bug (when viewing jpegs) in Preview fixed, and it's still not perfect. Spotlight seemed to really get it's game going about 10.4.4 as well. Prior to that, using the Finder's implementation of Spotlight was a disaster, type a search and pray that it doesn't lock-up the system. (Although system-wide spotlight, i.e., from the menubar, never exhibited that behavior oddly enough.)
The cursor that appeared for resizing columns in Finder windows that went missing in Tiger still hasn't reappeared as of 10.4.7. It's basically a lot of little things that are more fit and finish oriented that don't adversely affect basic, essential OS functions/actions, but I never noticed this sort of stuff happening to any great degree in Panther's lifetime. From a casual user perspective, updates to Panther seemed more like polishing the jewel rather than drilling down endless little bug fixes. (Except for the firewire disk bug in 10.3.0 that hosed the data on external firewire drives upon OS installation. Oops...)
Well, the good news is Apple gets to do it all over again with Leopard. Let's see how many lessons they've learned.
Edit: PS, don't even get me started on Quicktime 7
Although I use Tiger and I like it alot, it's been, imo, the sloppiest version of OS X to date. 10.4 rolled out with numerous little bugs present, and, even though none of them were really show-stoppers (at least for me), nevertheless there they were. It took until at least 10.4.4 to get a scrolling bug (when viewing jpegs) in Preview fixed, and it's still not perfect. Spotlight seemed to really get it's game going about 10.4.4 as well. Prior to that, using the Finder's implementation of Spotlight was a disaster, type a search and pray that it doesn't lock-up the system. (Although system-wide spotlight, i.e., from the menubar, never exhibited that behavior oddly enough.)
The cursor that appeared for resizing columns in Finder windows that went missing in Tiger still hasn't reappeared as of 10.4.7. It's basically a lot of little things that are more fit and finish oriented that don't adversely affect basic, essential OS functions/actions, but I never noticed this sort of stuff happening to any great degree in Panther's lifetime. From a casual user perspective, updates to Panther seemed more like polishing the jewel rather than drilling down endless little bug fixes. (Except for the firewire disk bug in 10.3.0 that hosed the data on external firewire drives upon OS installation. Oops...)
Well, the good news is Apple gets to do it all over again with Leopard. Let's see how many lessons they've learned.
Edit: PS, don't even get me started on Quicktime 7
I have never used Jaguar, and i had a very unstable version of Puma/Cheetah on my iMac before i installed Panther. But I really like Tiger on my mini
Panther was the biggest improvement in the all that I have seen so far. Tiger is nice but it just does not seem that the applications have kept up in fect i feel safari is slower *shrug*
I like them both but Def Panther is still my favorite at this point.
I like them both but Def Panther is still my favorite at this point.