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Official, something positive to say about Panther thread. :)
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Sorry about the abuse of the word "official" in the title, but I thought there was time to focus on some of the positive stories of Panther for ones. Here is my contribution from something I discovered to day:
I have this old Epson 670 Stylus color printer that I bought with my first Mac a half year before OS X 10.0. I switched to Mac because of all the good things I had heard about OS X and the potential of it. Unfortunately my printer didn't work with OS X, and Epson didn't show much interest in supporting pre X printers, so I felt a little disappointed. I had higher thoughts about Epson and their Mac support.
Well, today I am on Panther and things have now changed. I had some notes to print out and just happened to plug the thing into my iBook and pushed print. Seconds later the old printer woke up to from its silent death and started printing. Wow amazing! That's plug and play as it's meant to be. No pop-up notification or anything. It just worked™! 
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Waiting for the famous "This Thread is NOT Official, Please Move Along" badge....
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In other words, Panther comes with Gimp-Print bundled. But you could have installed it yourself in Jaguar already.
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Waiting for the famous "This Thread is NOT Official, Please Move Along" badge....
Yeah, I know. There is a typical 50/50 chance that it might come. 
In other words, Panther comes with Gimp-Print bundled. But you could have installed it yourself in Jaguar already.
I am aware of that. I had it in Jaguar, but I never bothered to try it on my old trusty one.
Back to topic shall we? 
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Panther has a lot of the good look and feel of the Macintosh I fell in love with in 1984. Apple wants OS X to be the best.
Panther is super stable like Jaguar was.
Panther has labels.
Panther is pretty neat.
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18.5 days uptime.
And I've absolutely murdered this poor machine with insane amounts of a/v encoding work. Come to think of it, 18.5 days is a record with me and OS X. Not with any previous incarnation of OS X have I gotten this high a level of stability.
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Panther is great ! I love exposé and it made my slower Macs work much better than Jag. All my gadgets worked : Handspring visor, Epson Printer, Epson Scanner, 3 DV cams, all external FW drives, and 2 digital cameras.
Everything is working great with my Win XP desktop, and Windows 2000 server.
And the best thing is it will only get better.
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1. Stripes begone! 10.3 Aqua is much easier on the eye.
2. Fast user-switching has finally made life easy enough for us to bother using switching at all at home.
3. I actually search for things in the Finder now.
4. Expose is slowly sinking in. Didn't use it much at first, but I'm getting more and more into it as the day pass. I find myself working with more and more windows open, and worrying less and less about clutter because of it. I rarely windowshade any more.
10.3 was unstable at first, but I've got two machines that have been up since I installed 10.3.2, the day after it came out.
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Installed without a hitch
Faster (note: didn't use the dreaded sn*ppier word)
Works with all peripherals
So far no complaints here, it's all good. 
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The Panther box is MUCH cooler looking than the Jaguar box! 
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Panther remembers the passwords for my SMB shares, it never forgets window view...wait, crap. Nevermind. 
Overall, Panther has made my aging iMac DV feel very good. It's much sna, sna...faster than all the X's so far. 8.6 never saw 15 days uptimes, or ripping CDs while surfing the web.
Sometimes I wonder if Apple intentionally cripples each OS release a little, just to make sure it isn't too good. Once they have an OS that gets uptimes that last months and more features that people can learn, what's next? Every time I install a new OS (Windows or Mac), more than the new features I'm hoping it'll work better than the old version (bug fixes, speed improvements, uptime, etc.)
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Not only is the box that Panther comes in, better than Jag, but for some reason, it smells better too... (Call me crazy,) but I love that box. I'll add it to my collection.
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Jaguar was already great. Panther kills!!
1. Stable: no kernel panics (just like Jaguar)
2. Pin stripes not as overwhelming
3. Way prettier and more functional than other OSes out there. Just check out the save dialog boxes as an example.
4. Finder is a huge improvement
5. Multiple users! And it works great!
6. Expose is cool but I don't use it much
Overall Panther feels very finished and solid. Highly recommend it!
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Installed it this week, and kept my Jaguar installation on another partition, just in case. I haven't had to boot back into Jaguar as yet.
Expose alone is worth the price of Panther.
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Originally posted by Lyric OS 13.0:
Not only is the box that Panther comes in, better than Jag, but for some reason, it smells better too... (Call me crazy,) but I love that box. I'll add it to my collection.
Speaking of smells, every time I smell the FireWire cable that came with my iMac, it brings back that feeling I had when I got my iMac (my first Mac also.) It's strange (and wonderful) how a smell triggers memories like that. The FireWire cable also smells strange and wonderful. I couldn't begin to describe it.
It also saved me a whole wack of cash back in the day.
I remember 4-6 pin FireWire cables being around $70 CAD in '00. Nice of Apple to bundle it in. Same with A Bug's Life. I didn't have any DVDs, and it was sure neat to try out a DVD right away. Wonder if they still bundle that much stuff. Haven't bought a Mac since that one.
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The instant search thing like in iTunes, that is now in the finder, preview and others... great!
but why isnt it in safari bookmarks??
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I free'd my mind... now it won't come back.
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Maybe it was just a coincidence, but when I installed QuickTime 6.5 on my Mac (G4 466 mHz running Jaguar 10.2.8), it discombulated my entire system -- so much so that I was faced with reinstalling the entire system. I opted to install Panther instead of reinstalling Jag, and I'm happy to report that everything now runs fine & dandy on my computer.
In addition to my primary hard drive ("Voodoo Child"), I have a secondary hard drive installed named "Auntie Gravity". When I did a clean install Panther (by totally erasing my hard drive), lo and behold both hard drives had retained the names I had given them -- no renaming was necessary.
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It's nice to hear people finding something positive (even it's minor things), despite bad accidents. Way to go! ^
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Menu blinking off, please.
Other than that, Panthwire iz kool.
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Panther is better than being horrifically injured in a car crash
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