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<blockquote data-quote="MacHeadCase" data-source="post: 360767"><p>This is all in relation to the Mac on which you're going to install the OS.</p><p></p><p>I used Mac OS X 10.3.x Panther on my G4 iMac (it's still on it btw, just don't use that iMac anymore) and Panther was the most stable OS I had ever used. even compared to Mac OS X 10.4.x Tiger, Panther is rock steady.</p><p></p><p>Sure, Panther's Safari lacks some features but you can get them with add-ons. You have to run Apple's Disk Utility because Panther had a problem with easily getting the disk permissions messed up which would bring quirky behaviour, and this is one of the advantages Tiger has over Panther, while Tiger's OS has largely fixed these permissions issues.</p><p></p><p>Tiger is a lot of eye candy: widgets, built-in image effects with Core Image so software developers can tap into them and easily build apps with them, etc. But these come at a price for older Macs and some of those image effects are not supported by older and less capable graphics cards.</p><p></p><p>So I think that Panther is not an inferior OS version, not at all. Just make sure you install all the Combo updates to bring it to 10.3.9 and you should be ok. Pay special attention when you download and install software that Panther is meets the requirements otherwise you could do some real damage with software that does not support 10.3.x (unless the installer checks out your system first and lets you know you can't use the software but apps are not all written that way).</p><p></p><p></p><p><em><strong>Edited to add:</strong></em></p><p></p><p>For some Safari add-ons, check <a href="http://pimpmysafari.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Pimp My Safari</strong></a>. Just make sure you download add-ons that are compatible with Panther's Safari and everything will be fine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacHeadCase, post: 360767"] This is all in relation to the Mac on which you're going to install the OS. I used Mac OS X 10.3.x Panther on my G4 iMac (it's still on it btw, just don't use that iMac anymore) and Panther was the most stable OS I had ever used. even compared to Mac OS X 10.4.x Tiger, Panther is rock steady. Sure, Panther's Safari lacks some features but you can get them with add-ons. You have to run Apple's Disk Utility because Panther had a problem with easily getting the disk permissions messed up which would bring quirky behaviour, and this is one of the advantages Tiger has over Panther, while Tiger's OS has largely fixed these permissions issues. Tiger is a lot of eye candy: widgets, built-in image effects with Core Image so software developers can tap into them and easily build apps with them, etc. But these come at a price for older Macs and some of those image effects are not supported by older and less capable graphics cards. So I think that Panther is not an inferior OS version, not at all. Just make sure you install all the Combo updates to bring it to 10.3.9 and you should be ok. Pay special attention when you download and install software that Panther is meets the requirements otherwise you could do some real damage with software that does not support 10.3.x (unless the installer checks out your system first and lets you know you can't use the software but apps are not all written that way). [I][B]Edited to add:[/B][/I] For some Safari add-ons, check [URL="http://pimpmysafari.com/"][B]Pimp My Safari[/B][/URL]. Just make sure you download add-ons that are compatible with Panther's Safari and everything will be fine. [/QUOTE]
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