Anticipation builds in the Mac user community for the forthcoming update to the system software, Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther). In particular I'm looking forward to the revamped Developer Tools which have been renamed Xcode, which includes a number of groundbreaking features and tight integration with Mac technologies such as Rendevous, Apple's zero configuration networking implementation. I'm hoping to start flexing my programming fingers once again with this free IDE after upgrading.
Within the OS itself, I can see myself making the most of the new Expose feature, which makes the most of graphics cards to aid navigation of multiple windows. Here is a Quicktime demonstration. Across the board improvements in speed and stability are always welcome, together with enhancements to Safari and iSync.
Apart from the sneak preview on Apple's website, most of the rumour sites have a number of insightful previews, such as Mac OS Rumors, Think Secret and AppleInsider. Mac Rumors believes an Oct 24th release date is most likely, which is only a couple of weeks away.
After a year of using Mac OS X (10.2 "Jaguar") on my iBook there is no way I'd go back to using either Linux or Windows, which I was required to use for my 4th Year Project by the sponsoring company. As a personal computing platform my Mac does everything I need it to. And it does it very well, elegantly and reliably. And by the sounds of it, Panther will make my iBook do it all better.
Posted by jonah at October 7, 2003 03:51 PM | TrackBackThat looks great. Almost makes me wanna go out and buy a Mac now! If only I had the cash...
Posted by: Adam at October 9, 2003 12:23 AM