[Ham-Mac] Who is *NOT* upgrading to Panther?

[John E Bastin]

On Oct 28, 2003, at 1:20 PM, Brian Short wrote:

>
> I would have to agree.  These upgrades are a bit expensive and
> they are just "point" upgrades.  I'd pay for OS-11 but this is a fairly
> big expenditure and so soon, too.

Someone else made this comment to me, about the 'point' upgrade, and I
offered my opinion that the reason this is only a 'point' upgrade is 
that Steve wants to milk the 'Mac OS X' moniker for as long as 
possible.

As far as the upgrade itself, I think it is a major upgrade, it brings 
a _lot_ of excellent features to the table, and it's worth every dime I 
paid for it. It's significantly faster on my PowerBook G3 Pismo, even 
though it brings additional power that I expected to slow it down. One 
of these days I'll upgrade to a computer that supports Quartz Extreme, 
and I'll probably like it even more, then.

I expected it to break some things, but it hasn't yet. The Palm people 
said that version 4.1 doesn't run, but it runs for me. Some people are 
having problems with Eudora, but I had _no_ problems for the brief time 
I ran it, before I did what I had been planning to do all along, and 
dumped it for Mail.

The Macintosh has never been a cheap platform, and I think we all know 
that, even though we hang in there because we know that it's a far 
better choice. I wish I didn't have to pay so much for upgrades, but we 
skated along for many years on system software that was free, and free 
upgrades. It's a different economy, now.

I'm glad I upgraded, and I would encourage everyone who is hesitating 
to venture forth and do it. You won't be sorry.

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