10.3 Panther
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Nov 10, 03

There's a very nice and fully-detailed review of OS X 10.3 (aka Panther) over at Ars Technica. There have certainly been other reviews out there, and most of them have been pretty darn positive on the new OS from Apple. So far, I've held out on the upgrade, and for several reasons. Mostly I'm just happy with Jaguar and don't have any real complaints. A faster OS would always be nice (and Panther delivers on speed), but not a must-have. Extra features in standard apps, like automatically organizing your email into threaded conversations, would be nice, but worth the $129 upgrade cost? Ehh, I don't think so. Each individual improvement is probably something I could continue to do without, but when I really start looking at the whole package, the increased performance, the added features (I hear they started bundling a scaled-down version of vim that runs within a terminal window), and the very sweet looking Xcode developer toolkit makes it harder and harder to resist. I think I'm gonna have to shell out the cash and jump onto the Panther bandwagon in the very near future.