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Security Update 2004-01-26: Delivers a number of security enhancements recommended for all customers.

Mac OS X has evolved. The fourth major release in just three years, Panther offers breakthroughs in innovation, ease of use and reliability that won’t be seen in other operating systems for years, if ever.

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If you’re one of the millions of Mac owners, you’ll love the powerful refinements to your system. Or as a user of a Windows- or UNIX-based system, you’ll find mouth-watering incentives to switch to a Mac as your main computer.

Finder Window A new point of view
The world’s most elegant user interface just got easier. A completely new Finder provides a vastly improved view of the system, with one-click access to your favorite files and folders, whether on your hard drive, iDisk, network servers or removable media. On top of that, Panther returns search results as you type in queries to find your stuff, refining the list as you narrow options. Sure you could quantify that as up to six times faster than Jaguar, but you’ll probably think Panther’s done almost before you stop typing. It’s just that fast. Compare that to finding files on a Windows-based machine and, well, there’s simply no comparison.

Exposé More than window dressing
Panther introduces the most revolutionary advance in productivity for a desktop windowing system in years. It’s called Exposé. With advanced virtual and protected memory, Mac OS X lets you have scads of applications open at the same time without fearing data loss in other apps if an unruly program crashes. And with several documents open per application, you could end up with dozens of open windows. Finding a window you worked on an hour ago can become a challenge. Exposé lets you instantly see all your open windows at once, then switch to the right one. Or see just the windows of the current program. Or the files on your desktop. And you won’t find it anywhere else.

iChat AV Phone home for free
Personal videoconferencing has arrived. Panther includes iChat AV so you can have face-to-face conversations in high-quality, full-screen video over the Internet with an iSight or DV camera. Or make voice calls with crystal-clear audio anywhere in the world over 56K modem. Of course you can still text message with anyone on the AIM and .Mac networks. Use iSight to set your buddy picture. The superior graphics capabilities of Mac OS X enable innovative applications previously imagined only in science fiction.

Digital lifestyle devices Digital Swiss Army knife
You can do just about anything with Panther. Mac OS X includes the latest versions of Apple’s critically acclaimed digital lifestyle and Internet applications. Speed through web browsing with the fastest browser on the Mac, Safari. Apple’s new default browser offers pop-up blocking and built-in Google searching. The new version of Mail delivers even fewer junk emails and makes it easy to read and manage related emails with a threaded view.

Preview and Font Book You’ll also get the fastest PDF viewer on the planet. Preview lets you navigate and search text at lightning speed. Creative professionals will appreciate its ability to open EPS and PostScript files, too. And to make type management more manageable, Panther introduces a new application, Font Book, which lets you preview and install fonts with just one click. Or locate any font on your system with the search function. You can activate fonts individually or create sets to make them available in groups.

Works well with others
Fast User Switching makes it even easier to share your system with other people. You can let them log into your Mac without quitting any of your applications. Then with one click, you can switch back to your desktop with all documents and applications exactly as you left them. Panther uses an elegant 3D transition to move between user accounts.

Fast User Switching

Only with Mac OS X can you run Microsoft Office, Quark XPress and Adobe Photoshop, browse a Windows network and use Unix commands — at the same time. Visit an Apple store or reseller near you to see for yourself. You’ll find Panther easy to install, easy to learn and hard to remember what you did without it.

 
 
 
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