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Saturday, October 18, 2003

Panther up close, part three: Performance
I've derided the performance on Mac OS X previously, and noted that I hadn't seen a perceptible speedup in the system since 10.1 was released two years ago. Well, color me silly: Panther seems much faster than previous versions, sometimes much faster. Don't get me wrong: My 500 MHz iBook is still way to slow to handle applications like Microsoft Word and iPhoto, and even my 17-inch 1 GHz iMac has issues with such applications as Photoshop Elements 2. But overall, on both systems, operations have a certain snap to them, and I can verify that the new Preview application is excellent: It's the first PDF viewer I've seen since Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.x on Windows that actually opens and navigates around PDF files quickly (Adobe's new Adobe Reader 6.0 is a dog on both Windows and the Mac). Now, I should qualify my performance observations with the note that I recently wiped out and clean installed both systems, and I actually re-did a clean install with Panther on the iBook. So I guess we'll see over time how the performance changes. But my initial reaction is very positive, especially given the relative pokiness of both my Macs. Good stuff.

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