Mac OS X 10.3 Panther

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Product Details

Platform : Macintosh
Binding : CD-ROM
EAN : 0718908551080
Manufacturer : Apple
Model : M9227LL/A
Product Group : Software
Release Date : 2003-10-28
UPC : 718908551080

ASIN : B0000E6NK9

Editorial Reviews

Manufacturer's Description

Mac OS X is the world's most advanced operating system, blending the power and stability of UNIX with the legendary simplicity and ease-of-use of the Macintosh. Mac OS X version 10.3 Panther contains over 150 new features and provides significant enhancements to its modern, UNIX-based foundation. Panther includes iChat AV for personal video conferencing, Expose for instantly finding any window, and a new Finder for easy access to everything you need. It's like having an all-new Mac.

Finder. Everything you need, just a click away. With your favorite folders, hard drive, iDisk, servers, and removable media always located at the left of every Finder window, you can work smarter and faster. Color-coded labels make it easy to &Mac222;nd and organize important &Mac222;les or folders.

iChat AV. Go face to face. Anyplace. Personal video conferencing has arrived. Use iChat AV for person-to-person conversations in high-quality, full-screen video over the Internet. Have voice chats with crystal-clear audio. All from anywhere in the world.

Expose. Find the window you need. Now. Expose gives you instant access to any open window with a single keystroke. Display all open windows as thumbnails, view windows of the current application, or hide all windows to quickly locate a file on your desktop.

FileVault. Safe, secure, and speedy. At home and away, keep your valuable documents safe with powerful AES-128 bit encryption. FileVault automatically encrypts and decrypts the contents of your home directory on the fly.

Fast User Switching. Share well with others. Share your Mac with other users quickly and painlessly. Withone click, you can switch to your desktop with all documents and applications exactly as you left them. No need to log out from another user's account first.

Mail. Follow the thread of any discussion. Quickly view, file, or delete related messages with the powerful new threaded view. See perfectly displayed HTML email, thanks to the Safari rendering engine. Simply drag and drop to address messages. Filter out junk mail with advanced spam filtering.

iDisk. Your online hard drive. Available offline. Now you can access your .Mac iDisk when you're not connected to the Internet. Just work on the copy of your iDisk on your hard drive. Every time you connect to the Internet, all your iiDisk files and folders synchronize automatically.

Font Book. Letter-perfect type management. Make the most of every font you own with Font Book. Locate any font on your system with the search function. Preview and install fonts with just one click. Activate fonts individually or create sets to make them available in groups.

Preview. Tear through PDFs in no time. Now there's no faster PDF viewer on the planet. Use Preview to open PDFs as well as EPS and PostScript &Mac222;les. Navigate and search text at lightning speed. Easily select and copy text or PDF graphics. View, crop, rotate, and copy images in a wide variety of formats.

Based on UNIX. Solid as a rock. Beneath the intuitive interface of Mac OS X lies an open-standard, industrial-strength, UNIX-based foundation. X11 for Mac OS X and FreeBSD 5 commands and libraries make Mac OS X Panther the ultimate platform for UNIX users.

Windows. Join the network. Panther makes your Mac welcome in any Windows network. Files, printers, and network services can easily be shared with Windows users. Microsoft Exchange support makes it easy to access your Exchange email and sync your Address Book entries.

Xcode. The ultimate toolbox. Xcode is the fastest way to create Mac OS X applications. Combining a groundbreaking user interface with an all-new, high-performance toolkit that includes GCC 3.3, Xcodemakes it easy to take advantage of the latest technologies from Apple.

Customer Reviews

Makes OS9 look so last-century (2004-11-01)

I never could see the point, my G3 iMac DV SE (graphite) being just so ace when used with the final release of OS9.2. I am an ex-Unix fan, though, so I finally succumbed to the temptation of true pre-emptive multi-tasking, real multi-user simultaneous logins and real security. But it was crash-proofing that I really coveted.And now I have them all. From what I've heard, missing out on 10.0, 10.1 and 10.2 was worth the wait, as OSX is now a mature product.If you've never used OSX before, buy the book "Mac OS X: The Missing Manual: Panther Edition" by David Pogue at the same time. Otherwise, you will never realise all the things you can do which OS9 and PCs can't.

STUNNING! (2004-08-13)

I needed to upgrade MAC OS 9 in order to use a mini i-Pod and MAC OS X.3 Panther was recommended to use with the i-Pod. I was petrified at the prospect of installing an entirely new operating system however it was unbelievably simple and took exactly 2 hours. I can still access my entire OS 9 desktop and applications and Panther is so easy to use and the new features are stunning!

Best OS in the world...period (2004-05-19)

I am a recent convert from PCs to Macs. I had been using PCs for ten years, but a few months ago I had just had enough. I knew very little about the Mac, but after a little research I was convinced. Before leaving PCs behind, I was using Windows XP. What a disaster that is at the moment. Thirty or forty patches through windows update, and still crashing too often. As for Panther, it is just wonderful. The start up time can not be beaten. Multi tasking is a dream. Yesterday I had seven programs running and the Mac wasn't breaking a sweat. More than two or three programs on the PC, and you think it is going to blow up. The fast user switching is FAST, and a wonderful feature if you share your Mac, and as for Expose, I'm not sure how I lived without it. I have virtually filled my 80GB hard drive with video, music and tons of applications, and the OS still performs as well as the day I installed it. Put this wonderful OS together with iLife 04 and Office 2004 for Mac, which looks great, and you have the best computing platform available. By the way, been using Panther for 3 months. It's NEVER crashed!

OS X Panther - not so scary as I thought! (2004-04-23)

I am a great believer in "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!", and have beenworrying about upgrading from OS X 10.1.5 to Panther for some time. Thelast upgrade I did was when I bought a new Mac two and a half years agoand made the massive jump from OS 7.5 to OS X. It was a major bother andtook a lot of time to get it to work the way I wanted it to and to sortout all my internet settings. I expected similar problems in the latestupgrade - but they didn't happen!It wasn't entirely straightforward, though. The screen display didn'twork exactly the way the documentation said it would - in particular, thescreen which gave you the option of preserving all your existing settingsnever appeared. That's a heart-sinking thing to happen when you are nearthe start of the installation and can't get out of it. However, at theend of it everything (nearly) was as it should be be. Big relief!A few problems: There was a flaw in my second installation disk whichcaused the installation of the extra software to stop. It turned out toaffect iTunes. I could have fussed and got another disk, but it wasquicker and easier to get this as a download from the internet. All therest of the disk could be installed by choosing just the bits Iwanted.The second problem was that a modem setting had changed which prevented meaccessing the internet afterwards. I use an external modem and it kepttelling me that there wasn't any such device. This is something I had metbefore when I started to use the external modem so I knew how to fix it. If I hadn't come across it before, I would have had to phone Apple support- it wasn't an obvious thing. It prevented me from registering thesoftware - the registration form has disappeared into the computer'sinnards and I haven't found it again yet!There is also a problem with Safari importing your bookmarks from otherbrowsers. It will import them automatically on first start-up fromExplorer or Navigator - but it wouldn't do it from both! It transferredmy old Explorer (which I no longer use) bookmarks, but not Navigator's. Transferring them by hand was severely tedious.That apart, I really like the new operating system. I like Safari, and Ilike the improved version of Mail. The new system is satisfyingly likethe old one, but with neat additions which operate intuitively. At theeveryday level, you aren't having to learn anything significantly new. There is probably lots there that I haven't found yet, but what I reallyneed works easily. It also seems to me to be faster - certainly bootingthe system up from cold seems to happen a lot more quickly. Even giventhe problems I had, I definitely recommend the upgrade.

Well named (2004-03-14)

It's fast, it's sleek, it's colourful and it has some growl; just like a real panther. This latest operating system from the Apple orchard is truly scrumptious. It has been put together so well that I feel I've been using it for years, and I've only had it two days. Pleased with the Mac OS 10.1.5 package, I am amazed at the difference. It's like buying a brand new computer. Only recently persuaded to up-date I really am delighted I decided to do so. Amazon gave me the best deal I could find on the internet and delivered it with impressive speed. Installation proved painless taking circa 2 hours using clean installation and choosing to save all my previous input. Best 2 hours I've spent recently. Everything works! I think Apple are seriously underplaying their achievements here. You actually do get what it says on the label and much, much more besides. And all this comes with enhanced speed, colour and sound. If you are a Mac owner and haven't already bought and installed Panther, DO SO!!!! That's the best piece of advice I can give. If you are not a Mac owner, please try and have a nice day.

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