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Ars Technica Posts Panther Review
Nexum writes "Today Ars released their latest Mac OS X review, this time for Max OS X 10.3 Panther. It's great to see another tour de force from the Ars guys. They have, as usual, an excellent insight into the new OS release, and they also cover that burning question 'is it worth $129?,' and Panther seems to come out rather well. Certainly worth a read."
Giving up temporarily, I cruise over to /. to see what's new. Of course, what do I find? The OSX review on Ars at the top of the list.
While I've definitely witnessed the slashdot effect trying to follow links from articles, this is definitely the first time that I've ever been caught in the middle of one.
It's kind of crazy, I didn't think people actually read the articles around here...
Wow. Astounding.
Your check is in the mail.
Love Always,
Bill G.
"The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." - Tacitus
so you're saying if it were released as Mac OS X 10.5 or Mac OS X 11, it would be worth it?
Obviously the best value proposition was upgrading from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95, giving you a total of 91.9 for your money.
Clearly 98 to 2000 would be better in that sense...
That's a whole 1902 for your money.
Where it all goes wrong is with Me and XP though.
It's bad enough that people don't know the difference between "its" and "it's," but those who think they're smart by using "its'" -- which, by the way, isn't a word -- ought to be publicly flogged.
You did of course mean to write "Is it worth the $199 for the family pack ?" didn't you.
Bad analogies are like waxing a monkey with a rainbow.
I have no idea either. And why did they start with this nice-looking UI thing, I mean, what can they do I cannot do with emacs in terminal mode?
How many slashdotters are suicidal?
Not enough, sadly.
Let me explain.. You see, MacOS X "Panther" is actually MacOS 10.3. But they use the X so you can see it's with windows, but X windows skipped version numbers all the way to X11 (0.7 more) some years back to show people that it was like windows 3.11, but now Apple has gone back to 10, because 10 in Roman numerals is X, which is why the successor to windows 2000 is windows XP to show it's just as good (they used the full 2000 to show it's Y2K compliant in windows 2000, but now they can use double digits, because no one will think windows was made in 1910), but they added the P, which stands for Panther because it's not as slow as X11 on MacOS X.
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Wow, now I've seen everything. An anon copied my earlier post from another story, and didn't even try to get mod points for it. He should have at least plugged my band too!
Wow, now I've seen everything. An anon copied my earlier post from another story, and didn't even try to get mod points for it. He should have at least plugged my band too!
He needs to implement these ideas in a $15 shareware application. Only then will Apple take notice, integrate them into Mac OS X 10.4 "Ocelot" and give them a catchy name.
Either way you end up with fuzzy text on-screen.