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BusinessWeek, Forbes look at Panther upgrade
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BusinessWeek says that Panther "isn't a huge improvement, but it's faster and loaded with small enhancements that'll make your Mac purr," while Forbes.com takes issue with Apple's built-in "intelligent" search technology, but concludes: "Still it's not enough of an annoyance to dissuade us from giving Panther an otherwise enthusiastic endorsement." (Meanwhile, Forbes.com has posted a Billionaire Halloween Masks feature that includes a sample mask for Steve Jobs, while an iPod-o-Latern offers tribute to the iPod.)
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posted by MacNN.com Reader
"We can't check the vital signs of every computer Apple ships. We can, however, report on the quality of the PowerBooks we've received, and that report is not encouraging. Of six 15-inch PowerBooks Macworld ordered from a non-Apple retailer, three had to be returned. One repeatedly locked up and experienced kernel panics after being unplugged from an external monitor, another's fan ran constantly, and another displayed only the magenta video channel when plugged into an external display. So if you absolutely must have this PowerBook now, be prepared for potential problems."
"The screen on the 1.25GHz 15-inch PowerBook used for this review exhibited a white blotch about the size of a dime when we put a white background (such as a blank Microsoft Word document) on the desktop. And the latch on this PowerBook locked inconsistently -- the lid occasionally popped up after it had been closed for a couple of seconds. Reports of such latch problems are widespread on the Discussions area of Apple's Web site and on other Mac-related sites."
http://www.macworld.com/2003/12/rev...chpowerbookg4s/
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posted by MacNN.com Reader
I've purchased 3 Rev. A Macs;
a Mac IIcx, a PowerMac 8500 PPC 604 120mhz and a 500mhz Titanium PowerBook. I must say that there were many hassles involved. The PowerBook was the best of the bunch, but did have it's share of hardware related troubles, mainly in the case design. The 8500 was a nightmare and took months for software conflicts to disappear. Thay all still run, though!
Advice? Save your tears and wait for Rev. B Macs!
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"Say one of the kids wants to take a minute to check their e-mail while you're working. Previously doing so meant logging out and running through a process that would take almost as long as rebooting the entire system. Now it takes seconds, and you can switch right back only seconds later. The screen effect--each account takes a different side of a rotating cube--is cool to watch.
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Anybody else get the feeling they missed the point here? It's not that you can switch between users quickly - it's that multiple users can be logged in SIMULTANEOUSLY. Yes, you can switch between them quickly, but you can also have one user running a task, switch to another user and the first user's task continues to run even though you're logged in as somebody else.
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"Search as we might, we found no way to turn this "smart searching" feature off."
In the Finder, select View > Customize Toolbar. Then drag the search field off the window and it disappears in a cloud. You can then simply use the Command-F to search in a separate window.
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posted by MacNN.com Reader
They don't like the type-ahead feature that begins searching as soon as you type the first letter. What they seem to fail to understand is that you do NOT have to wait for the search to finish after each letter. You type the whole string and the search starts with the first letter you type and refines to the whole string as you go.
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