Hi everyone!
Well, it has arrived: Jaguar is now resting on my iBook's
OS X partition after an excruciating long install that took
about half an evening of anxiously checking whether the install
process was still happening.
After the reboot - now for the first time without the
happy Mac icon (and which was only marginally faster) - it still
looked like OS X. There were a couple of new icons lying
around in the "Application" folder, windows opened up a bit
zippier, and, as you all know, the beach ball from hell is now a
bit prettier.
With other words, the whole Jaguar experience so far was quite
underwhelming.
To check out the new networking gadgets like Rendezvous and
iChat, I fired up the Internet Connect Panel, and - excuse me? -
for some weird reason, my Alcatel Speedtouch modem did not show up
anymore on the list of available ports. A quick check on the Web
using Classic, just like in the good times, confirmed my worst
fears: Jaguar does not support my modem, and although Alcatel has
issued drivers somewhere, they have not made it to the New Zealand
site, adapted to the local connection prefs. I have to admit that I
have my doubts whether they will make it, though, as Alcatel NZ
unfortunately has been not very supportive so far.
So now I'm back using Classic, which still seems to have a
significant speed-advantage and at least lets me surf in style and
speed. Suspicious that 10.2 is not really the big step forward we
all hoped for, I received a little email from Germany, in which my
friend Sven made me conscious of the fact the author of "Tinker
Tool" blamed Apple for releasing Jaguar at least one month to early
(Jaguar:
Tinker-Tool-Entwickler konkretisiert Vorwürfe in German),
quoting numerous bugs in Mail and the OS.
Mmh. One update is already out; I wonder how long it will take
for the next update to be released.
Is Apple copying Microsloth's policy of releasing immature,
bug-ridden software that only works after the fourth update?
Sorry guys, so far this expensive update is much ado about
nothing, or, to be more concise, Jaguar seems to be more like
Garfield - fat, slow, and deeply flawed.
