henryblackman
macrumors member
Originally posted by AppleMatt
Yeah I wasn't going to mention "PCIExtreme" because of the QuickTime and DVD player problems with it, also confusing it with the official specs.
From what I've read, it's users of old hardware that have experienced the biggest boost with Panther, perhaps because Apple got such a slating for it.
AppleMatt
Probably 😉 I have to say though, I'm really chuffed that Apple keep improving OS X though. Even though they *have* to for whatever reasons ("slow" processors, no processor strategy because of Moto, expensive hardware, customer complaints, need to accelerate acceptance and migration to OS X etc...), I feel that if it was MS developing the OS, we wouldn't see any speed increases at all, we'd need to buy new machines.
All in all, my investment in this hardware (my gorgeous iMac 800 (17") and my iBook 500 and now 700Mhz) seems to get better and better as time goes on - contrary to what happens on the Wintel side of things. Makes me feel that my "switch", 3 years ago, was so definately the right choice.
I've used X on the iBook since 10.0 and the CDs that I was given (luckily) when I made my purchase at the Apple Store somewhere in the LA area; and it was usable (except for no DVD playback) from the start. It just gets better, easier and faster. What OS can meet that claim, despite whatever "slow", or "unusable" starting point they were supposed to have?