10.2 Experiences, what you expected? It sure blows me away!

[theCaptain]

I find 10.2 absolutly wonderful! The speed enhancements are terrific, and so far I am extremelly impressed with everything that it has to offer. Apple has really done it with this one!!! Fantastic job Apple!!!! How does everyone else that has it feel?

[Cheryl]

You have helped me make my decision. I will indeed get the new 17" iMac - and Jaguar.

[fryke]

well worth its price, wonderful new operating system. few quirks (but there are some) that will hopefully be fixed by saturday's 10.2.1 update (think positive)...

[Chris Belwinds]

Well, this may make you fell less enthusiastical:

http://www.hp.com/cposupport/printer.../bpm35005.html

Obvioulsy many hardware devices are not supported in Mac OS X 10.2. Some of them are Hewlett-Packard's AIO printers. For me, that is a clear reason to postpone my Apple order at this point and wait for 10.2.1.... :-(((

[jocknerd]

I'm interested in knowing how well it performs on the G3 iBook. 10.1.5 is rather slow by my standards and I'm hoping that Jaguar improves it. If its a noticeable improvement, I'll buy it.

[PowerBark]

I have used 10.2 on an iMac G3/400, PowerBookG4/400 iBook G3/700 and have to say that I am really impressed. Surprisingly, it *appears* to me that the speed benefits are greatest in the G3s, but that may just be that I played less with them than the G4. The iBook really blew me away and I could hardly believe that it burned a full audio CD in just 4 minutes.

Jaguar may be overpriced for those people upgrading (I paid educational pricing), but it really is a huge improvement.

There are a few minor problems which need addressing (and there are major changes in Mail that take some getting used to, if you have already customised Mail very much), but it is definitely a great improvement - more polished and much faster.

I did experience some application crashes, but some of the affected programs have already been updated. Installing the Developer Tools did seem to cause more problems (notably Toast 5.14, but 5.13 still works).

All in all, well worth it and a definite speed benefit on the current iBook.

[profx]

Originally posted by PowerBark
Installing the Developer Tools did seem to cause more problems (notably Toast 5.14, but 5.13 still works).

Toast works fine for me (5.1.4).


Super fast startup time as well. If you blink you will miss the startup screen. I timed it: 1 min from pushing the power button to being able to launch apps on G3 400. It must almost not be worth using sleep on a dual 1GHz!!

[karavite]

I'm curious - what about window resizing on all these G3s - My G4 450 with a new Radeon 8500 (supports QE) shows no imporvement in window resizing - try Mail or IE - they seem to be the worst offenders.