Apple demonstrated Panther for the first time today.
Jobs touched upon a number of new features in Panther:
Jobs touched upon a number of new features in Panther:
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I just bought my dual 2 ghz G5, and I couldn't get anything out of them on whether or not us G5 buyers would be getting Panther free when it comes out. Blah!!!!
Oh well, thank god theres a student discount.
Oh well, thank god theres a student discount.
Yaaaay! G5! Yaaaaaaay! The machine is gorgeous and the specs make me feel a little queezy. I'm filled with the gruesome desire to squeeze this citrus into the eyes of the AE pc-users at the Adobe AE forum. They've been so nasty these last few months. Now we may have a solid chance of kicking some ass!
I watched the play-by-play in the MacRumors chat channel, as well as watching a couple of other sites update their pages automagically (MacMinute, MacRumors, MacMerc).
One question, of course, is does anyone have a link to the SteveNote for the "rest of us" who couldn't watch it live? It sounded fun.
Feature request for MacRumors IRC client: ability to turn off join/leave/nick-change messages.
Everyone did a wonderful job, though I was sort of bummed that people glossed over a lot of information as "geeky stuff" or just plain "wow" without any real description of what was going on. This included the websites. But I guess beggars can't be choosers, and it was nice to watch you go wild over the presentation.
And having looked over Apple's website (and watched the G5 Introduction movie -- slick stuff!) I can see why you were so blown away. Panther is going to be something really special, I think, teamed up with the new G5s (and I assume there'll be a powerbook G5 announced within the next six months or so) is going to really make the Macintosh an even *more* special platform to be on.
The prices are too high, of course, for both the hardware and for the software. But I can't say that I'm complaining. It is all worth it. Early adopters pay for the R&D that the rest of us enjoy later on. We appreciate it, we really do.
One question, of course, is does anyone have a link to the SteveNote for the "rest of us" who couldn't watch it live? It sounded fun.
Feature request for MacRumors IRC client: ability to turn off join/leave/nick-change messages.
Everyone did a wonderful job, though I was sort of bummed that people glossed over a lot of information as "geeky stuff" or just plain "wow" without any real description of what was going on. This included the websites. But I guess beggars can't be choosers, and it was nice to watch you go wild over the presentation.
And having looked over Apple's website (and watched the G5 Introduction movie -- slick stuff!) I can see why you were so blown away. Panther is going to be something really special, I think, teamed up with the new G5s (and I assume there'll be a powerbook G5 announced within the next six months or so) is going to really make the Macintosh an even *more* special platform to be on.
The prices are too high, of course, for both the hardware and for the software. But I can't say that I'm complaining. It is all worth it. Early adopters pay for the R&D that the rest of us enjoy later on. We appreciate it, we really do.
Originally posted by Ananna
The prices are too high, of course, for both the hardware and for the software. But I can't say that I'm complaining. It is all worth it. Early adopters pay for the R&D that the rest of us enjoy later on. We appreciate it, we really do.
For Panther, I might be able to understand a bit of griping about the price, but for the features you get, I'm sure it'll be well worth it... But as i said before, Apple needs an OS subscription plan, like they have for some colleges...
Now the G5's are very competitively priced. You can't get a windoze system under 2k that can beat the 1.6ghz G5 in features, expandability, performance, and coolness, without stealing it...
Well it looks good and it seems as if they are making some real improvements to it. Seing as how I am a recent switcher an operating system upgrade from the Microsoft side just brings more of the same. But this seems like theres a few new goodies in there. Appearance on this also looks better than those screenies that surfaced on the weekend so already its a step forward.
My only question about this is, will use users of the G3/G4 be left out in the cold on Panther? Will this be a G5 exclusive?! AHHHH I NEED DETAILS!!!
But at the risk of rambling on for pages and pages all I can say is lets go Panther!!!
My only question about this is, will use users of the G3/G4 be left out in the cold on Panther? Will this be a G5 exclusive?! AHHHH I NEED DETAILS!!!
But at the risk of rambling on for pages and pages all I can say is lets go Panther!!!
The ease of switching users is fantastic, and the visual cube twisting of the GUI is simply awesome. Beats the hell out of the Longhorn twisting the GUi upside down preview.
Way to go Apple!!
Way to go Apple!!
font book
Dude, if I can get ride of Suitcase and just use Apple's font software, that would be awesome. Would easily pay the $129 just for that.
Ohh, and to fax and receive faxes (with anti-alias on the fax), oooooh ya.
Now we are talking Steve.
I guess I can now tell Microsoft to kiss my fax
Dude, if I can get ride of Suitcase and just use Apple's font software, that would be awesome. Would easily pay the $129 just for that.
Ohh, and to fax and receive faxes (with anti-alias on the fax), oooooh ya.
Now we are talking Steve.
I guess I can now tell Microsoft to kiss my fax
I think the fast user switching will be a welcome adiition for many additions-just like the featuire of the same name but adds a cool old screen roatating. Also great to see that the Finder now has a iTunes style interface-and intergrated faxing and the return of labels. The Font Book looks quite interesting.Expose should be the most cool addition to the Mac OS yet.
Has anyone read or heard of when Panther (wow I almost typed Jaguar.. ) seeds will be available for download from ADC?
Cheers,
Jeff
) seeds will be available for download from ADC?Cheers,
Jeff
Re: font book
Ok, does anyone know more about font book? If you have suitcase you may want to check because you may already own it. IF (a big if) I am remembering correctly Font Book comes with Suitcase. The version in Panther may be updated and more fancy but can it replace Suitcase? From the keynote presentation I didn't see much more than a preview option and install option. This still doesn't allow me to easily MANAGE my fonts. I also didn't see anything there to fix damaged fonts. I would love to see Panther fix some of the font problems/issues, I mean do we really need 5 different locations for fonts (4 if you take out classic).
Don't get me wrong, I am not praising suitcase. I would LOVE to see some better (doesn't need to be suitcase, font agent, etc. level) font management included with the OS. At the very least I would like suitcase, font agent and others get their stuff together and do a good job managing fonts in a multi-user environment like OS X is!
Ok, does anyone know more about font book? If you have suitcase you may want to check because you may already own it. IF (a big if) I am remembering correctly Font Book comes with Suitcase. The version in Panther may be updated and more fancy but can it replace Suitcase? From the keynote presentation I didn't see much more than a preview option and install option. This still doesn't allow me to easily MANAGE my fonts. I also didn't see anything there to fix damaged fonts. I would love to see Panther fix some of the font problems/issues, I mean do we really need 5 different locations for fonts (4 if you take out classic).
Don't get me wrong, I am not praising suitcase. I would LOVE to see some better (doesn't need to be suitcase, font agent, etc. level) font management included with the OS. At the very least I would like suitcase, font agent and others get their stuff together and do a good job managing fonts in a multi-user environment like OS X is!
I assume it is going to work on all Macs that currently support Jagaur? My concern is that the updates will keep getting bigger, all the while my iMac's HD is the same old 13 GB and the graphics card, processor speed, etc. and getting any faster either. I just want to know how soon some of these OS X updates are going to quit working on older Macintosh computers like mine. Oh well, seems time to get a G5!
Oh well, seems time to get a G5!I agree 100%!
I suspect it is, like the toolbar is ... Having it there all the time takes up way too much space if you have multiple folder windows open at once.
First off, thanks to the mods on the MRChat IRC this afternoon. I knew the show had to be pretty cool when three lines in a row it was "wow" "Wow" "WOW"!! I was LMAO when I heard "the crowd there is cheering!" at the sight of the graphical user switching. I can't wait for and ADC seed!!!
I'm just glad I finally understand why all the app windows were so small on the leaked screenshots... EXPOSE! This just looks incredible. I think I'm going to have to get my sister to become a student developer also I DEFINITELY know what my grad. present is going to be!
I'm just glad I finally understand why all the app windows were so small on the leaked screenshots... EXPOSE! This just looks incredible. I think I'm going to have to get my sister to become a student developer also
I DEFINITELY know what my grad. present is going to be!Looks extremely powerful... Once again Apple the leader in OS development... We'll see poor implementaitons of some of these features in windoze long from now... It is a VERY good day to be a Mac user and fan!
Panther for G3 users?
I wish they would have mentioned the system requirements for Panther. I still have a Pismo G3/500 running "Jagwire". I hope I can run Panther on it. I'm sure it will run on my PB/667 and PM Dual1Ghz. Oh well I guess I will see when I get it.
CheekyGit
I wish they would have mentioned the system requirements for Panther. I still have a Pismo G3/500 running "Jagwire". I hope I can run Panther on it. I'm sure it will run on my PB/667 and PM Dual1Ghz. Oh well I guess I will see when I get it.
CheekyGit