Pulled Panther Feature? 'Home on iPod' [Updated]
- Home away from home
Ever thought you could carry your home in the palm of your hands or in your pocket? You can. Panther's Home on iPod feature lets you store your home directory - files, folders, apps - on your iPod (or any FireWire hard drive) and take it with you wherever you go. When you find yourself near a Panther-equipped Mac, just plug in the iPod, log in, and you're "home," no matter where you happen to be. And when you return to your home computer, you can synchronize any changes you've made to your files by using File Sync, which automatically updates offline changes to your home directory.
While this feature is reportedly not in the latest version of Panther (build 7B85), it was first mentioned in this eWeek article in April which provided some of the first hints of Panther. According to eWeek's sources at that time, "one proposed feature will let users take home directories they've saved on peripherals and networks and use them for file access or securely log into a Mac running Panther."
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guess it's no longer in panther....
arn
:D
pnw
Originally posted by JoeCanadian
I followed the link to the Panther mobility site, but there is nothing about "Home on iPod" there.
It was just there. they pulled it seconds after I posted the story. I don't have it in cache anymore.
arn
Almost like Sun's whole Sunray thing with the Java card. Except with this you carry everything with you rather than leaving it on a server somewhere.
Will be a big selling point for business.
So I take it 7B85 is GM since its not suppose to have the feature? Oh the confusion...
Shame its been pulled. Perhaps it will make its way into one of the minor updates after the initial Panther release.
Better not be restricted to Gen 3 iPods tho..!
it would sure be nice for them to automate this, though. i would definitely use it.
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