Snaguar with Jaguar
Well, I’m Jagged (and loving it) but the installation didn’t exactly go smoothly. I used the Archive & Install option to preserve my previous account & preferences. Everything seemed to go fine – no trouble with the added RAM in the Pismo – and I rebooted into 10.2 to start having a look around.
Almost immediately I started getting regular Finder crashes, especially when copying or moving files. I downloaded the 2.2J developers’ preview of TinkerTool which only worked with 10.2. The installer refused to run, saying I was running 10.1. Not a good sign.
Computer housekeeping is just like real housekeeping: you only do it when you really need to. My boot drive hadn’t had a good cleaning out in ages and I had an extra partition originally set up for Virtual PC which I was no longer using, so I decided to completely wipe the disk, recover the lost space from that partition, and do a ‘first-time’ install of 10.2. Again everything went fine… until I tried to run the updated versions of FruitMenu and WindowShade. No go. Another Archive & Install over the top of this clean install seems to have fixed everything, and I’m back in business.
I won’t repeat all the wows and whoopees that you’ve probably read on a hundred other sites, but Jaguar is amazing. Boot time is less than half that of 10.1.5 and snappiness remains once you’re up and running. I’d love to see it on the latest hardware, which must just scream. Top fixes/improvements for me:
- Speed – even on the Pismo there’s a significant boost
- BBEdit – the bug in the OS which prevented you from hitting Return in Open & Save dialog boxes has been fixed
- iPod – the clock and calendar now synchronise with the Mac when you plug it in
- Anti-aliased text – huge improvements here (System Prefs allows different settings based on your monitor & personal preferences)
- Contextual menu placement – there was a bug in previous versions where, if you Ctrl-clicked on an item near the bottom of the screen, the contextual menus would not expand upwards to avoid the bottom of the screen but would truncate to a tiny window making it impossible to scroll through. The contextual menu now expands upwards correctly when clicking items near the bottom of the screen
- Energy Saver – now puts the machine to sleep correctly after the specified time (never used to; monitor would dim but no sleep)
- Speed – did I mention it’s faster?
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Posted to Computers • 2002.08.26 (Mon) • 23:45
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