Today marks the twentieth anniversary of the Apple Macintosh computer.While the original Mac is certainly meager by today’s standards, thereare few that would argue against its revolutionary status in the earlyyears of personal computing. In commemoration of that event, today also marks the launch of OfB MacFor.Biz, the new section of Open for Businessthat will cover the Mac in much the same way OfB covers GNU/Linux andBSD. In this premier piece, they will examine the latest Mac OS X, 10.3 “Panther,” on two separate generations of Macintosh systems. Read more at MacFor.Biz.
Panther: A Look at Mac on Its 20th Birthday
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Eugenia Loli
Ex-programmer, ex-editor in chief at OSNews.com, now a visual artist/filmmaker.
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Very good review………….
I remember back to the first mac, and the opposition to it from so many segments of computing. There were the hardcore console types, who hated the GUI, there were the first generation of console gamers who decried its lack of colour, and there were the PC users at the time who (for ten years afterwards, even) insisted the mouse was a silly idea and wouldn’t catch on for serious users, and that 3.5″ floppy drives were nonstandard, and because of all this, the mac would be the cause of Apple’s death.
Apple. Going out of business for 25 years.
I run Panther on a B+W G3, and a G3 iBook before that. The most important thing is to give it enough RAM to work with. Maxed-out at 320M, the iBook was usable. I’d like to have put more in. On the PowerMac, I have 640M, and it’s quite usable. There is some jerkiness moving windows around sometimes, but that’s more a function of the crappy graphics card. In actual use, I don’t notice the speed difference between it and my G4 notebook most of the time.
good article
A Mac user writing a review that had the right tone thruout.
.. to look back at the promise, all those years ago, unfulfilled.
1.8% market share & falling.
Hmmm.
Mac apologists are sounding more & more like Amiga owners.
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P.S. I am an ex Mac owner.
… to look forward, buldding upon all those fulfilled promises, creating yet more innovations and industry shaping products.
Larger installed base than ever before and still growing …
Hmmm.
Mac critics are sounding more and more sour and jaded
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P.S. I am a Mac refugee (Amelio years) who has returned to the fatherland.
…. “Oh well. I hope it sends soon. The daily Apple soap opera has gotten so ultimately boring.”
The quality of anti-apple trolls in this site has gotten pretty bad lately. Yawn…