gekko
08-24-2002, 03:37 PM
As anyone who read my last topic knows, I now have Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar. It ownz.
Speed is te first thing I noticed. It runs a lot faster than 10.1, and can't even be compared to 10.0. Boot-up is muc much faster. You do lose the happy Mac though :( But everything runs faster, OS 9 fast. Jaguar is actually quite fast. Thank you Apple! By far my biggest complaint.
I'm not sure everything they added to the finder. But the built-in search is handy, since you no longer need to open sherlock, which, BTW, no longer allows you to search your HD. And spring-loaded folders. Can we say w00tage? The first time I ever got a Mac I was impressed with spring-loaded folders, and now I get them back! Thank you Steve!!!!! I know they got other stuff, I haven't checked it all out.
iChat is something I had my doubts about. Even just seeing the keynote, I wondered how well it would work for me. My conclusion is that it's more adult oriented, and not made for teenage internet-junkies. It's made for the people who aren't used to chatting online, and referring to someone as "Teh-l33t-hax0r." If you add someone to your address book, their real name appears. When using AIM, the buddy icon appears next to the messages as the "picture." When using it with .Mac, I believe they pick the address book pictures. The bubbles aren't bad, honestly. However, change the picture by the guy to just name, and change from bubbles to text, and you have a setup very similar to the traditional AIM. My biggest complaint is the buddy list. It puts everyone who is online at the top. I have 60+ buddies, so I really need to be able to organize it like in AIM. Then again, I could clean up my buddy list and remove the people I don't talk to. But being able to sort my buddy list would be nice. My only other complaint at the moment is not being able to sign on with both .Mac and AIM at the same time. I currently have no .Mac buddies, and I'll only have around 5 if I added people. I would like to have both at the same time. But I will praise Apple on one end of this, which might even cause me to use it over AIM. In the top corner of your screen, by the clock, in a little menu for iChat. You can choose your status (Online, Offline, Away, etc.) and see a list of avaliable buddies. You can actually change your status to online, and not have iChat open. iChat doesn't actually open unless you select your buddy list or go to message someone. So no open windows if you aren't actually talking. If you just want to sign on and wait for someone to come online, iChat doesn't even need to be running. It's very nice.
Sherlock is something I never used, but now something I will never stop using. Sherlock 3 kicks ass, plain and simple. It no longer allows you to search your HD, which is a bummer, but it adds so much new **** that I can't stop using it, even to mess around. The internet tab is pretty much the same, and I don't know if most of you would care too much about the stocks either. But let's start with yellow pages. Type in pizza, and hit enter. Simple enough, right? Instantly you have all the pizza joints around your house, with phone numbers, and driving directions. You can also add multiple locations, so you can check for your work, or any other place. The movies tab is also very handy. Can sort by movies or by theater. Say you click a local theater, then you get all the movies playing. Click a movie and you get all the times it's playing. On the bottom, you get a nice little preview. Get the theater address and distance from you, then the movie poster, rating, and run time, as well as a nice description at the bottom, and best yet, the movie trailer starts loading! :cool: You can also check for flights, search eBay, look up a word in the dictionary, and translate text. It's handy, very handy.
If you use a Mac, upgrade to Jaguar. If you use a PC, but a new Mac pre-loaded with Jaguar. This OS ownz. And I'm still looking for all the new crap they added. So I'll likely get to posting more impressions later.
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I forgot to say iCal and iSync are not included because they weren't finished on time. Will be avaliable as a free download in September. And I'm really looking forward to using Address Book and iCal to sync my Palm and iPod all together. No more Palm Desktop and exporting crap.
Speed is te first thing I noticed. It runs a lot faster than 10.1, and can't even be compared to 10.0. Boot-up is muc much faster. You do lose the happy Mac though :( But everything runs faster, OS 9 fast. Jaguar is actually quite fast. Thank you Apple! By far my biggest complaint.
I'm not sure everything they added to the finder. But the built-in search is handy, since you no longer need to open sherlock, which, BTW, no longer allows you to search your HD. And spring-loaded folders. Can we say w00tage? The first time I ever got a Mac I was impressed with spring-loaded folders, and now I get them back! Thank you Steve!!!!! I know they got other stuff, I haven't checked it all out.
iChat is something I had my doubts about. Even just seeing the keynote, I wondered how well it would work for me. My conclusion is that it's more adult oriented, and not made for teenage internet-junkies. It's made for the people who aren't used to chatting online, and referring to someone as "Teh-l33t-hax0r." If you add someone to your address book, their real name appears. When using AIM, the buddy icon appears next to the messages as the "picture." When using it with .Mac, I believe they pick the address book pictures. The bubbles aren't bad, honestly. However, change the picture by the guy to just name, and change from bubbles to text, and you have a setup very similar to the traditional AIM. My biggest complaint is the buddy list. It puts everyone who is online at the top. I have 60+ buddies, so I really need to be able to organize it like in AIM. Then again, I could clean up my buddy list and remove the people I don't talk to. But being able to sort my buddy list would be nice. My only other complaint at the moment is not being able to sign on with both .Mac and AIM at the same time. I currently have no .Mac buddies, and I'll only have around 5 if I added people. I would like to have both at the same time. But I will praise Apple on one end of this, which might even cause me to use it over AIM. In the top corner of your screen, by the clock, in a little menu for iChat. You can choose your status (Online, Offline, Away, etc.) and see a list of avaliable buddies. You can actually change your status to online, and not have iChat open. iChat doesn't actually open unless you select your buddy list or go to message someone. So no open windows if you aren't actually talking. If you just want to sign on and wait for someone to come online, iChat doesn't even need to be running. It's very nice.
Sherlock is something I never used, but now something I will never stop using. Sherlock 3 kicks ass, plain and simple. It no longer allows you to search your HD, which is a bummer, but it adds so much new **** that I can't stop using it, even to mess around. The internet tab is pretty much the same, and I don't know if most of you would care too much about the stocks either. But let's start with yellow pages. Type in pizza, and hit enter. Simple enough, right? Instantly you have all the pizza joints around your house, with phone numbers, and driving directions. You can also add multiple locations, so you can check for your work, or any other place. The movies tab is also very handy. Can sort by movies or by theater. Say you click a local theater, then you get all the movies playing. Click a movie and you get all the times it's playing. On the bottom, you get a nice little preview. Get the theater address and distance from you, then the movie poster, rating, and run time, as well as a nice description at the bottom, and best yet, the movie trailer starts loading! :cool: You can also check for flights, search eBay, look up a word in the dictionary, and translate text. It's handy, very handy.
If you use a Mac, upgrade to Jaguar. If you use a PC, but a new Mac pre-loaded with Jaguar. This OS ownz. And I'm still looking for all the new crap they added. So I'll likely get to posting more impressions later.
-edit-
I forgot to say iCal and iSync are not included because they weren't finished on time. Will be avaliable as a free download in September. And I'm really looking forward to using Address Book and iCal to sync my Palm and iPod all together. No more Palm Desktop and exporting crap.