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Lertsiri · Oct 31, 2003, 01:30 AM

Wow with word running around on this post concerning FW800 and Panther glitch, iMovie glitch, safari, and some fonts not looking right....(some confirmed such as FW Hdd and Panther,some not) I am actually glad I held off on the night of the panther event and didn't upgrade in a flash!

Hope Apple fixes its Star OS before it loses its base for sense of security of updaters. Come to think of it, 10.2.8 latest build is not bad at all...hmm...

Feel sorry for all the folks out there who lost data on their external FW drives after Pather. Think of all the data recovery that they need to go through. Man!

blackbird_1.0 · Oct 31, 2003, 03:05 AM

not ALL of us are havingt problems w/ panther, lighten up dude, Panther runs like a champ on my 2-year old iBook, and works fine w/ my Firewire hard drive (but its f400), i'll probably install it on my G5 and old iMac this weekend.

rjenkinson · Oct 31, 2003, 03:08 AM

i haven't had a single problem with the upgrade.

-r.

moonmonkey · Oct 31, 2003, 04:07 AM

Originally posted by rjenkinson:

i haven't had a single problem with the upgrade.

-r.

Same here.

Great improvement over jaguar.

sniffer · Oct 31, 2003, 04:33 AM

I had problems with the settings from good old jag. Numerous problems and Apple apps acting jagu'ish. Disabled my old account, creating a new with same name and running backup without importing application settings fixed everything thought.
Except that, it's a great upgrade.

Boochie · Oct 31, 2003, 08:23 AM

Archive and installed Panther on Saturday afternoon (after reading early reviews on MacNN, of course). Not a single hitch. Panther has been working smoothly, and is considerably faster than Jaguar ever was on my G4/867.

AssassyN · Oct 31, 2003, 08:38 AM

I waited about 4 days and heard no real huge pressing issues, so I used the "Upgrade" option in 10.2.8 and haven't had any issues so far.

typoon · Oct 31, 2003, 08:49 AM

No issues here. I upgraded the first night. No issues here what iMovie issue are you talking about? Anyway so far so good here.

dfiler · Oct 31, 2003, 08:57 AM

Originally posted by Lertsiri:
Wow with word running around on this post concerning FW800 and Panther glitch, iMovie glitch, safari, and some fonts not looking right....(some confirmed such as FW Hdd and Panther,some not) I am actually glad I held off on the night of the panther event and didn't upgrade in a flash!

All major operating system upgrades work well for most people and catastrophically for a select few. Why would you expect differently?

djjava · Oct 31, 2003, 09:18 AM

Originally posted by rjenkinson:
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i haven't had a single problem with the upgrade.

-r.

ditto.

gorickey · Oct 31, 2003, 09:26 AM

Originally posted by dfiler:
All major operating system upgrades work well for most people and catastrophically for a select few. Why would you expect differently?

Amen.

Same goes for the point releases...10.2.8 ring a bell?

Too Artificial · Oct 31, 2003, 09:26 AM

No problems here, either. TiBook 550 at home, G5 1.8 at work. My brother upgraded his iMac FP and so far no problems either. I know several people at work who have upgraded with no problems.

I'll be upgrading my girl's iBook over the weekend.

mitchell_pgh · Oct 31, 2003, 09:44 AM

They sky is falling, the sky is falling...

But seriously, there have been a few glitches, but I wouldn't say more then when I moved from 10.1 to 10.2...

I think people forget about all the little issues we had back then. We have been living with 10.2.6+ bliss for so long.

Lertsiri · Oct 31, 2003, 01:52 PM

Oops...My Bad then.....but just to be on the safe side.....I'd update to Panther later cause I happen to have a FW800 500 gig hdd from Lacie Big Disk on hand with valuable info such as FCP projects....and Apple did confirm a major problem with that....so sorry for the bad vibes I may have set off.....

As for the rants, I did say some were unconfirmed...except for the confirmed FW800 issue and Panther...

For me that is a major problem because it concerns data loss. Data or work that was accumulated for a movie making project, or spreadsheets being lost is a major thing...Thus I'll wait until the problem is resolved and confirmed by Apple and Lacie (Along with the other FW Disk makers out there such as OWC)

Terri · Oct 31, 2003, 01:58 PM

There are always problems when a major new update comes out. This is why being a consultant I always upgrade my machine right away, but tell my clients to wait a few weeks.

I'm waiting until 10.3.1 comes up to do most production machines, especially those working with Windows machines.

10.3 is working very nice on my 17" Powerbook, no problems and it is much faster. I love most of the new interface as well, but am bugged by network drives not showing up on the desktop.

snerdini · Oct 31, 2003, 03:59 PM

Originally posted by Terri:
There are always problems when a major new update comes out. This is why being a consultant I always upgrade my machine right away, but tell my clients to wait a few weeks.

I'm waiting until 10.3.1 comes up to do most production machines, especially those working with Windows machines.

10.3 is working very nice on my 17" Powerbook, no problems and it is much faster. I love most of the new interface as well, but am bugged by network drives not showing up on the desktop.

Why don't your network drives show up on your desktop? Mine do...

Terri · Oct 31, 2003, 04:06 PM

They only show up if you go through the Go menu, not if you use the network browser. Kind of hard to use the Go menu if you don't know the IP of the server.

d0ubled0wn · Oct 31, 2003, 04:51 PM

Originally posted by Lertsiri:
Oops...My Bad then.....but just to be on the safe side.....I'd update to Panther later cause I happen to have a FW800 500 gig hdd from Lacie Big Disk on hand with valuable info such as FCP projects....and Apple did confirm a major problem with that....so sorry for the bad vibes I may have set off.....

That is why most businesses don't upgrade software right away. The same should be true for users with important data.

Of course, then there are people like me who ran the 10.3 betas on their production system, important data be damned.