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7 of 60 customers found the following review helpful:
 the romance is gone, 2004-12-21
There was a time long, long ago when I enjoy using my Macintosh. Pleased with so fine a product, I bought many over the years. Certainly OS X (Panther) has thrown a couple gigabytes of ice water on that romance. But Panther has made one thing clear that never was before. Previously I never could quite express what I enjoyed about the older Mac operating systems. I can now. Before, I could find things. And I always knew where I was in the hierarchy of folders. If I had a document in a folder, stored in a second folder that ordering was always transparent. I could see the folders open, one inside the other. And when I closed up, they slipped inside one another quite intuitively. No more. In OS X, I haven't a clue. I do have a 750-page manual that I keep in my lap when working in Panther. With a trembling finger on the step-by-step instructions and my other hand on the mouse, I can empty the trash successfully. I know the red buttons close something-sometimes something I wanted closed, but more often my home window. (Which I've learned to find after a brief but infuriating search.) There are candy colored yellow and green buttons too though I can't say what they do just now. It's all there somewhere in the manual, but before reaching for help try a little reason. If the red pill closes a window, what would logic suggest about the functions of the yellow and green? Don't bother; logic is no guide in Panther. And that encapsulates the problem. In OS X nothing makes much sense, intuition is of no value, everything must be memorized. The claim is that OS X is bedrock stable. Try to console yourself with that tradeoff the next time you face the spinning beach ball of death. Hint: Erase your hard-drive and re-install everything. A rock after all is a rock.
And don't get me started on the Dock. I've read (several times) the twenty-page introduction that explains just how easy the Dock is to use. I condensed all that to a half page of notes, which I've misplaced. But the little icons do look nifty. And they do bounce happily-like little corpses on deliberators. In fact OS X has all the chrome gleam and high-tech awe of a modern hospital. Yes it is wonderful how technology can keep a body alive on antibiotics, feeding tubes, and assisted breathing. But remember how wonderful it once was to run free? Effortlessly if memory serves, and without much pain.
9 of 21 customers found the following review helpful:
Mac is the best, but there's room for improvement., 2004-12-05
I couldn't wait to try Expose, and now that I have it, I hate it. If I had it to do over again, I'd stick with Jaguar. It was a lot more stable than this version of the OS. Of course, I'll have to have Tiger the minute it's released. Panther is still light years ahead of Windows.
12 of 31 customers found the following review helpful:
Zero Stars!!!!!!!!, 2004-11-30
Worthless trash is what my experience has been with this new operating system. I've got a PowerBook G4 and recently installed 10.3 Panther and have had nothing but trouble ever since. The first and main problem is that upon launch of an application, any application, like Word, Photoshop, Illustrator, Excel, Powerpoint, or Entourage, the application freezes during startup about 10 to 20% of the time and even force quit cannot close it, necessitating rebooting the system. I've called the Apple and Microsoft help desks, but to no avail. I didn't have any of these problems with OSX 10.2.2 and now regret changing. The enhancements are trivial for my needs. Buyer beware!
4 of 9 customers found the following review helpful:
 Amazing!, 2004-11-23
Mac OS X is the easiest to use greatest operating system ever. everything is simple but you can still do amazing things on it. A perfect 10.
1 of 19 customers found the following review helpful:
The Best OS I have ever experienced!!!, 2004-07-13
Super Awesome OS !!! AAAAAAAAAAA+++++++
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