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Yesterday afternoon, Apple announced that Mac OS X version 10.3 “Panther” will ship on October 24 beginning at 8:00 p.m. Among more than 150 new features are a completely new Finder that provides one-click access to a user’s favorite files and folders, Exposé, a new way to instantly see all open windows at once; and iChat AV, a complete desktop video conferencing solution for business, education and consumers. Top New Panther Features in brief Apple says that Panther’s redesigned Finder is up to six times faster than Mac OS X version 10.2 “Jaguar,” which certainly does have plenty of room for improvement in that context. The new Finder provides one-click access by putting a user’s favorite folders, storage, servers and iDisk in one convenient location. I’ll reserve judgment on how convenient that will be until I try it. The new Finder also offers dynamic browsing of the network for Mac, Windows and UNIX file servers. Panther’s new Exposé feature visually unshuffles overlapping windows on the desktop into an organized thumbnail view so a user can instantly locate and switch to any open window or get to any file on the desktop. Sounds promising, but why not also include a windowshading option? Stubbornness? Other new features in Panther include: Mac OS X version 10.3 “Panther” will sell for a suggested retail price of $129 (US) for a single user license. Visitors to The Apple Store (http://www.apple.com) can pre-order copies of Panther. The Mac OS X Panther Family Pack is a single-residence, five-user license that will be available for a suggested retail price of $199 (US). A sour note is that while the standard Mac OS Up-To-Date upgrade package is available to all customers who purchase a new Mac system on or after October 8, and and customers who purchase the Mac OS X version 10.2 “Jaguar” retail product on or after October 8 for a shipping and handling fee of $19.95 (US), a $19.95 upgrade to Panther is being extended to Power Mac G5 owners regardless of purchase date. So what are all those folks who have taken delivery of the new PowerBooks introduced last month in Paris, long after the G5 rollout -- chopped liver? Hey Steve, isn’t this supposed to be “the year of the laptop? Why does Apple do stuff like this? It smacks of hair-splitting cheapness and is obvious discrimination among different classes of Apple customer. As Dan Gillmore, who bought a new PowerBook last week, comments:
Yup; that about sums it up. Note that the October 8 cutoff applies to the invoice date, not the purchase date. So if you purchased a Mac or Apple laptop before October 8, but it hasn’t yet shipped, you should still be abor to get Panther for $19.95. The Panther Mac OS Up-To-Date upgrade program ends on December 26, 2003. Your order must be postmarked or faxed by December 17, 2003. For more information, visit: Panther requires a minimum of 128MB of memory and is designed to run on the following Apple products with built-in USB support: iMac, iBook, Power Macintosh G3, Power Mac G4, Power Mac G4 Cube, Power Mac G5, PowerBook G3, PowerBook G4. Note that the list of supported Mac models supported by Panther no longer includes G3 Macs that do not have onboard USB (i.e. The PowerBook G3 WallStreet and Beige G3/AIO G3 which were on the supported list for 10.1 and 10.2). Accelerate Your Mac has a commentary on that issue: The article notes that:
For more information, visit: Guide for Mac OS X Server Søren Theilgaard of Theilgaard Consult writes: I have written a guide for Mac OS X Server 10.2, called “Mac OS X Server - The additional guide for some of the UNIX stuff!.”, which has just been updated to version 1.2.1. The focus of this update is to make the guide even more useful for beginners. It contains a lot of improved descriptions about Open Directory, mail server and many other topics. The guide include topics like DNS server (BIND), Open Directory and NetInfo (and Password Server), Apple Mail Server, File Services (incl. WebDAV), Web Services (Apache, SSL encryption), as well as a new troubleshooting section. The guide contains a detailed index, so that information is easy to find. It’s available in pdf and new users can register for US $20. Chapter 1-3 is free, and can be downloaded from the Web site below: http://www.theilgaard.dk/articles/MOSXSconfig/index.html I hope you will post this information to your readers. Yours sincerely Theilgaard Consult Happy to spread the word, Søren. Charles
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