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About this siteFor six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul Friday, November 14, 2003Great Panther reviewAndy Ihnatko probably knows more about the Mac than anyone on the planet and his review of Panther--belated though it may be--is excellent. And no, Inhatko doesn't trash Panther as you might suspect, given my recommendation. But then, Kool-Aid-drinking Apple fans generally do misunderstand me: I've always said that Panther was a great upgrade, it's just Apple's way of promoting it that grates. But Inhantko get its right. Noting the Finder is more than a little Microsoftish, he moves quickly to the stuff in Panther that's worth thinking about, which is of the course the ton of very minor tweaks Apple has made to really polish this OS (like the 'eject buttons that appear where they're most needed" as he says). It all goes to show what a very minor and yet landmark release this is, because Panther is really just a primped and prettied version of what came before, which is actually just fine, thank you very much. It's sad that Apple doesn't have the balls to admit this. What I really think is that Jaguar was the first OS X version worth bothering with, while Panther is the first version you could give to a general computer user and expect them to be happy. It will be interesting to see what happens next. [ Posted at 6:20 PM | Permalink ]
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