Anyone Got Panther (Mac OS X v10.3)?

[jyl]

I'm trying to decide whether to get Panther (Mac OS X v10.3). Anyone who has it, would like to hear your reactions. I have a G3 iBook w/ 384MB RAM.

[nostatic]

we have it running on a G5 (it screams) and G4/500. Panther is way fast. Highly recommended upgrade, at least with a G5 or G4. I don't have any data on a G3 machine though. I can put it on one next week sometime and let you know.

[Ronbo]

My copy will be here Friday!!

[jyl]

Yes, that would be great (feedback on Panther/G3).

I was going to get a G5 for Christmas but the better half made good arguments for a couch, patio furniture, and now there's this divorced friend possibly selling a baby grand cheap and the kids are ready for piano lessons . . . sigh.

[BlueSkyJaunte]

Get the piano and make the kids take lessons. Don't let them quit.

Find a teacher who will teach them more than just rote memorization.

They'll thank you when they hit 30 or so.

[jyl]

Originally posted by BlueSkyJaunte
Get the piano and make the kids take lessons. Don't let them quit.

Find a teacher who will teach them more than just rote memorization.

They'll thank you when they hit 30 or so.

Yes, that's what I'll probably do. I regret never learning music, as an adult I tried to learn clarinet and it was okay but nothing like having learned as a child. Both my kids love to sing, my daughter has a beautiful voice (everyone comments on it) so being able to accompany oneself would be good. Plus this is a quality baby grand piano, bought new by some close friends and well-maintained, that a bitter divorce is now (possibly) making available for $1,200-1,500. Don't know squat about pianos, but seems like a reasonable bet.

All in all, the G5 doesn't come close.

[nostatic]

I started guitar and piano lessons at age 8. On piano, I was taking from an old jazzer named Freddie. He played trumpet and piano in the jazz clubs and hotels in San Diego. In 6 months I was playing boogie woogie stuff...totally cool. A couple months later he died. I got another teacher after awhile who gave me gold stars and crap like that. I eventually quit.

I rue the day that Freddie died, and one of my biggest regrets is that I didn't find another teacher like him and keep at it. While I kept at guitar, there is no substitute to being able to do some serious keyboard work.

[BlueSkyJaunte]

The one thing I regret is that my piano teacher of seven years, while a concert pianist of some reknown, taught me nothing about music theory or anything besides classical music. It wasn't fun. I stuck with it for a while but eventually quit when I felt things were just stagnating.

I can play music on the guitar, now, that I have no idea how to manage on the piano.

OTOH, I can't do Beethoven on the guitar.

(edit) I'm sure that all sounded like I know music, but I'm not 1/16th the musician nostatic is. Actually, I'm not 1/64th.

[nostatic]

oh I'm no musician...but I play one on TV.

I wish I had double majored in chemistry *and* music, instead of switching from the latter to the former as an undergrad. I don't know as much theory as I'd like.

I also wish I'd never sold my '65 strat. Or my '60's relic and Bogner for that matter.

There are a lot of other things I wish, but I likely shouldn't elaborate. Statute of limitations hasn't exipired yet...

[surflvr911sc]

Helping take this thread further OT.

My wife is a music girl. Her father was a piano tuner his whole life but couldn’t play at all. He did make sure she could though, and he taught her a lot about pianos.

We have a beautiful little Yamaha Baby Grand in the house and she plays and sings (very well). She never gets as much time playing and singing as she’d like (between flying over Iraq and stuff) but it also helps her feel connected to her father, RIP.

A piano and a microphone and she is a happy girl.

I have no musical talent what so ever.

[arcsine]

Nostatic, you sold a '65 Strat! I hope you were really drunk at the time.

And getting this back on topic, I am hoping to get Panther very soon for my dual-G4. Maybe it will help with the server issues I am having.

[nostatic]

actually I traded it for a frankenstrat, that was a perfect '58 neck on a '63 body. I prefered maple fretboards. I sold that guitar after I took it to a famous repair shop in Hollywood and they gouged the crap out of the back of the neck (they had a staple sticking up in their neck rest). I actually cried...there was no way to repair or replace it.

When I sold my '62 relic strat along with my Bogner I was helping pay for the p-car purchase.

[arcsine]

If I remember correctly, Stevie Ray used a '63 neck on a '59 body as his main tool. HAd the best tone he ever heard.

And I would expect public flogging or seppuku if a pro shop did that to a guitar.

I always wanted to have a strat with maple neck and sunburst body sitting in my living room. I don't play (tried but failed) but wanted it as a piece of modern iconographic art.