Anyone with experience of Mac OS X

[daedalus]

Thinking of upgrading my Mac. Anyone with experience of OS X, Panther or Tiger versions who can give me their impressions of these systems?

Thanks.

[Flyrr100]

I upgraded my old G3 iMac 450dv from v9 to v10.2. It's so much more stable. And iTunes is the best.
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[Engineer]

Just upgraded to Panther from Jag at present seems very good especially like the use of the function F9 F10 and F11 buttons very neat. Also opens up the use of more software that was not available with 10.2

Was a cheap upgrade costing £30 slightly better than Tiger at £80 :ok:

One small bug is that mail some times fails to initialise but I am working on that one.

You can look here (http://www.apple.com/support/panther/) for more information

[Daysleeper]

Both are fantastic, I'm running tiger (10.4) on my laptop.

Panther (10.3) was a big improvement over Jaguar (10.2) but the upgrade to Tiger has been less marked.

The whole point of Tiger is that its fully 64bit functional so the Powermac G5s should really fly with it. For us operating it on older systems the improvement is less obvious.
Spotlight is nice to have, very clever. It searches even within PDF files. So if you are looking for something lost in your hard drive its good.

IMHO Dashboard is not worth 50pence. You need to be online on broadband the whole time for it to work. I've got a weather widget on and thats it.

Overall I'd say the upgrade from Jaguar to Panther is definately worth the money.
Panther to Tiger....hmm jury is still out.


Have you tried Macformat forum (http://forum.macformat.co.uk/) lots of advice over there.:8

[daedalus]

Thanks to all! Especially for connections to other sites.

[AppleMacster]

I concur with Daysleeper, although there is more to Tiger than just the native 64bit processing on high end G5s. In general, all G3 and G4 Macs should run more efficiently and reliably under Tiger. I've been using Macs since System 6.0.2, and there has never been a more reliable system than Tiger.

Dashboard is more than a gimmick. Yes, it does rely somewhat on having a broadband connection, but once you have that, it does become a useful tool. There is the weather widget included with the system, but there are many more weather-related ones available from Apple's website (http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard), amongst over 1000 widgets. There is an excellent Aviation Weather widget which will give METARs and TAFs, as well as radar rainfall ones and other forecasting weather widgets. Dashboard widgets are essentially time saving, helpful applications which make life easier. Instead of navigating to a currency conversion website, the Conversion widget will do the currency conversion for you.

Daedalus: if you're going to upgrade your Mac to Tiger, just make sure you meet the minimum memory and hard disk requirements. 256Mb is the minimum, but 512Mb will be much better.

AppleMacster