Well I wanted to go and check out Panther before putting in an order for a Powerbook or iBook in the next couple of week. Went to the Micro Anvika in the basement of Selfridges. All the staff there where wearing their Panther t-shirt and giving demos to other people, they had installed 10.3 onto all of the demo machines there. I got to a 17″ iMac and started playing around. Brought up a terminal and checked the versions of Python and Perl, as well as looking for new things in the setup for the Bluetooth keyboard.
My attention quickly turned to Expose which has it’s own Setting program so I had a quick look, really not much to configure. So I began to play, fired up a bunch of apps to occupy the desktop, Safari (2 windows), iTunes and iChat. I slowly moved the mouse pointer to the edge of the screen – wow. Expose kicked in. All the apps minimised and moved to occupy a space on the grid, I then highlighed one, it automatically zoom in a bit, then you click and it very quickly animates to the foreground. Very cool.
So I think I must get 10.3 and quickly however I don’t think my current iBook is up to the job, the new G4 iBooks however have a very nice price point, then again the Powerbooks are just too sexy.
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