Fwd: Re: [Macpartners] Feedback on Mac OS X 10.3

[Ginny Williams]

Dan gave me permission to forward to the list...

ginny
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From: Dan Armendariz <danallan at MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: [Macpartners] Feedback on Mac OS X 10.3
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 13:20:52 -0500
To: Ginny Williams <ginnyw at mit.edu>
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Hey Ginny,

	Last night I upgraded from Jaguar (10.2) to Panther, and I 
was very surprised to see how well it works!  It feels much snappier 
than Jaguar (it's more responsive and the visual effects are smoother 
and quicker) and the Finder is much more intuitive and productive. 
All the new little features really add up to make it a great 
experience: Exposé is just as cool as it is helpful, text 
auto-completion is great for those of us who are too lazy to learn 
how to spell "miscellaneous", and the new widget design is very 
modern and industrial.  Printing has been great and even easier to 
use than Jaguar, and Panther's very smart when it comes to networking.

Beyond my great praises .. I did have a few problems installing some 
old software.  I Installed the Palm conduit for iSync, and it changed 
the permissions on a folder that caused an installation to fail.  Of 
course, this is not necessarily Panther's fault, but it was annoying 
nonetheless.  Also, I've heard reports of panther destroying external 
Firewire hard drives when the computer is restarted, and so I am 
scared of keeping my Firewire backup drive plugged in.

>From an MIT standpoint, I've had very few problems with the 
applications, e-mail (and I use Apple's Mail application), network, 
etc.  I have not installed that many MIT-specific apps, but SSH'ing 
into Athena from the Terminal still works great.  Apple Mail, 
however, keeps complaining that it does not recognize the 
po10.mit.edu's certificate, but I can still check mail (and it only 
asks once, until I restart the machine).

That's pretty much it, I would say ..... You really need to 
experience it for yourself to get a true feeling for it.  Compared to 
10.2, I think it's an incredible improvement, but some people 
disagree.

Try out Ruby2 in the Call center .. it's great!
--Dan
-fellow HD consultant :-)

On Oct 28, 2003, at 12:17 PM, Ginny Williams wrote:

>Hello!
>
>I had a conversation earlier today that made me curious as to what 
>experiences people are having with Mac OS X 10.3.
>
>Has anyone upgraded, and if so do you have any feedback?  Have you 
>had any particular problems with connectivity, third-party 
>applications, printing, etc?  Anything surprising or wonderful to 
>report?
>
>Thanks!
>
>ginny
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