Wednesday, October 29, 2003

Panther...

I installed Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) on my Powerbook tonight. So far, so good and everything I use seems to run without any updating. The whole computer seems definitely faster. Expose is a cool and useful tool. If you haven't heard, with a simple touch of a key or movement of the mouse to a hot corner, all open windows on the desktop shrink so that all are visible. When the mouse cursor is dragged over the windows, the name of the file or application is displayed. Clicking on a window brings that window to the front and everything back to normal size.

Contrary to the problems some users are experiencing, the install process went smoothly. The only think I did prior to installation was to "repair all priveleges" using Disk Utility. Except for leaving out the language packs and making sure all older Epson print drivers were installed (we have an older Epson 740), I just had it do the simple update installation, rather than the archive or clean install methods.

Anyway, more later as I try the new features.

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