I recently used my 15 inch PowerBook G4 (2005) running Leopard to watch 'A Christmas Story'. After putting it away, I decided to pull out my 2003, 15 inch PowerBook G4 running 10.3.8 to just poke around and enjoy a bit of nostalgia. Panther actually has aged quite well, but technically, its not maintained its longevity. I noticed I can't seem to connect to my wireless network, although this might be due to a buggy installation. But, I was able to connect it to the Internet and see if I could browse. If you are gonna use Safari 1.2 which is included, nope. It can't even load Apples own page. I was able to get better milage with IE 5.2, but even that is a dead end for the most part. I was able to reach Google and Macintosh Garden.
Panther feels really clean in its design, bold, but lighter with its look and feel. Probably the worse part of it is the brush metal Finder. As an everyday operating system, its absolutely boring by 2020 standards and generally, macOS is boring because of its appliance like experience. There is nothing really to poke around in if you are an average user. If you have applications like Office and Adobe CS installed (which I do), then you can occupy your time with offline creativity and productivity.
Networking was a pleasant surprise, since I was able to see it from my M1 running Big Sur. This is something you can't do with 10.0. I have yet to try Jaguar to see if networking works. As I have said previously, these earlier versions of OS X are now in the realm of ancestor software and its unclear if things like networking will be maintained to provide continuity with more modern versions of the software. Apple is notorious for pulling out stuff it thinks is dead weight in the OS or critical to security. But its always amazing to see software that's almost 20 years old still making connections with its present day descendants.
Panther feels really clean in its design, bold, but lighter with its look and feel. Probably the worse part of it is the brush metal Finder. As an everyday operating system, its absolutely boring by 2020 standards and generally, macOS is boring because of its appliance like experience. There is nothing really to poke around in if you are an average user. If you have applications like Office and Adobe CS installed (which I do), then you can occupy your time with offline creativity and productivity.
Networking was a pleasant surprise, since I was able to see it from my M1 running Big Sur. This is something you can't do with 10.0. I have yet to try Jaguar to see if networking works. As I have said previously, these earlier versions of OS X are now in the realm of ancestor software and its unclear if things like networking will be maintained to provide continuity with more modern versions of the software. Apple is notorious for pulling out stuff it thinks is dead weight in the OS or critical to security. But its always amazing to see software that's almost 20 years old still making connections with its present day descendants.
