It's more like a slight overall increase in general
"snapiness", but don't sell a night-and-day sort of thing to your
users. Like any speed increase, you (too) quickly become acclimated
anyway.
Here are some neat things...
o .ps files are naturally associated with Preview in 10.3, and
preview converts them to PDFs when you double-click them. Bye-bye
Distiller, bye-bye ghostview (at least for general use).
o Wow, I just have to say that again -- just double-click on a
postscript file, and you're reading the thing in Preview. Hit "save"
and you've saved a PDF. Wow.
o The new Finder windows are just generally more useful. I like the
little eject icons by each ejectable/unmountable volume.
o It's nice to have good uniformity between Finder windows and Save
dialogue boxes. Very smooth.
o Browsing file shares (Mac *and* Windows) is very awesome,
particularly for local servers. Just click through from the
Finder... click on a server on the network, then click the
authentication button. Now all the volumes to which you have access
are available from every Finder window (and, of course, from every
Save dialogue box). Auth once, and you're easy clicks away from
*all* the volumes, all the time. (Note that CCC will need an update
so that it won't crawl /var/automount/Network when you clone a drive.
Ouch! Better to just unplug the network if you need to do some
CCC'ing.)
o Some weirdness with X11 on a particular installation: it just
bounces & disappears. This is on top of previous fink and by-hand
xfee86 installs; will probably work better on a fresh machine. (The
reviewer found that it worked fine, so this may be a quirk.)
o Desktop printers are back, and with a vengeance. You can drag &
drop docs. PDFs don't even (visibly) launch an app, they just
disappear off to the printer! You can even drag a printer to the
little shortcuts pane on the left of Finder windows -- or to the dock
-- so that it's always handy.
o Expose really is right up there with sliced bread -- and that's
only *half* because it looks cool. ;)
o Trouble with Mouseworks on top of an archive & install. (Like, no
boot -- not even safe mode -- until the .kext was removed by hand!)
USB Overdrive fared no better, but *did* work on a totally fresh
install. Probably best to lie low on some of the 3rd party sw until
some of these things come out in the wash, as usual, in the few weeks
after an update like this.
o Default terminal type is "TERM=xterm-color". Do a "setenv TERM
vt100" (or similar) before sshing if there are troubles getting
remote machines to recognize your terminal type.
o From what I've seen, Eudora 6 seems to only ever print the first
page of any print job. :( Will need to see if this applies to all
installs/machines/printers, but tread carefully and check this on
test machines.
Oh, and I don't know what that reviewer's trouble was with
the dock -- you can still put windows "under" the dock.
In general, though, I'll be recommending the upgrade to all
of my OSX users.
-Greg
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