On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 06:05 PM, Tony Coult wrote:
I'm currently running 9.2.2 on a Pismo and a CRT iMac. I'm thinking of jumping up to X Panther when it comes out. Should I worry about being an "early adopter" (aka mug or guineapig)?
As apparently you have not yet used any version of OS X, I would wait a while after Panther is released before you install. Watch the Mac web sites and lists such as this to see if there are any hassles reported and fixes given. My reasoning is that OS X does take a bit of getting used to and those of us who are reasonably familiar with it will have a better idea of how to deal with those bugs than someone for whom OS X is brand new. I would suggest you may struggle a bit trying to come to terms with a new and different OS while at the same time resolving any bugs in it [if there are any]. To forestall the critics jumping on board here, I opine OS X is great and once you are familiar with its differences you won't go back. But it is different. And accepting the view that the first release of Panther may have a few bugs, waiting a few weeks after its release won't do any harm. You have waited long enough now to jump on the X bandwagon. In my case I waited till X 10.1 before upgrading. Yes, I know there is a mile of difference between the early versions of X and Panther but I shall be waiting at least a few months before upgrading from 10.2.6 to 10.3.
Personally I've always found the idea of waiting for others to find the bugs a bad idea. I mean if we all did that we'd still be using OS 0.9. But then again I'm better able to deal with problems that show up.
But I haven't used any OS version yet that caused much grief. And that includes most none machine specific versions since OS 2.0 or so, including 7.5.2.
That said you might want to consider waiting to upgrade till Panther comes out to avoid buying OS X twice. Apple has in the past had free or low cost upgrades if you bought the previous version of the OS or a computer within so many months prior to the release of the new software. But who knows just when Panther will ship.
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