Out of curiousity why didn't you go to 10.3?
Bitter experience has taught me never to upgrade the OS (or anything else) unless absolutely necessary. Hardware is designed to match the performance demands of the software that is current at the time it is built. Upgrading quite often degrades performance. (I've found this to be generally true on any platform.)
Plus, upgrading always implies risk. There is the risk it won't work correctly on your computer. There is the risk that, for all the marketing hype, some feature in the old version you hold dear has been removed or modified to the point of uselessness. There is the risk that a new version has new bugs.
I never upgrade without a good reason, and no UI doo-dad constitutes a good reason. Frankly, I hate the Panther UI, especially as compared with Jaguar. Not only is Panther ugly, it removes useful function because the window's title bar is no longer delineated from the window's content. SFAIK, the only significant addition in Panther is the instant see-every-window feature, but in my environment with 3 monitors, I would derive less benefit from that than most.
Oh, and you can be sure I'll avoid Tiger, too. The only way Tiger might tempt me is if it had built-in screen rotation for all monitors. But even that is less tempting now that I can use Versavision, and anyway I have never heard it punted as a possible Tiger feature.
-- Robert Patterson
http://RobertGPatterson.com
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