One Last Thing for not Upgrading to Panther

Panther had been out on Oct 24. Naturally, I would like to upgrade from Jaguar to Panther on my iBook. I followed the issues on driver and application support closely, and there is no major problems while vendors agressively post their driver and application updates for Panther. Now, fink 0.6.1 is released for Panther, which is quite essential for me, and I am now planning to upgrade... but wait!

At the moment, there is just one reason left for why not upgrading. I am not very sure that Panther could support Firewire DVR-K11. My iBook is now running 10.2.8 and I have to use PatchBurn utility to patch the driver to make it work. However, this trick does not work on Panther. I found no information on which 3rd-party DVD-Writer are supported. Of course, upgrade to Panther, I can still burn CD/DVD from Roxio Toast, but not by Disk Copy, Finder, and those iApps. That's a real shame. I have a 6GB 3'5" hard disk spare so that I can install Panther on an external Firewire case for trial and testing. Unfortunately, I would not be able to verify it since my iBook one has only one Firewire port and is occupied by the external HD. Otherwise, I have to look into kernel plug-ins. That's too many annoying... and I hate it. Oh, may be it's time to buy 15' Powerbook.