There are 23 reader comments
05 08 2003 1:05PM
Ok, go ahead.
05 08 2003 1:05PM
I hereby welcome my Panther overlord.
53 08 2003 1:53PM
Exposé looks frickin' awesome (Scott).
22 08 2003 2:22PM
Another $129?! Jesus.
45 08 2003 2:45PM
Can't wait to see photos of nerds lined up for "midnight release parties" at the end of the month.
52 08 2003 2:52PM
I can hardly wait not to upgrade. I mean, really, that brushed-metal abomination of a Finder is just over the top.
08 08 2003 3:08PM
Holdin' steady at 9...
33 08 2003 8:33PM
Ahh... $69 with education discount. Get a college friend to buy it for you!
04 09 2003 4:04AM
I can't believe web 'superstars' are complaining about the cost. Fork up the bling bling yo!
28 09 2003 4:28AM
“I can hardly wait not to upgrade. I mean, really, that brushed-metal abomination of a Finder is just over the top.”
There&srquo;s already another post about this.
I, for one, welcome my brushed metal overlord.
47 09 200311:47AM
I'm too much of an Apple Whore to pass up a nifty upgrade that might make my mac "snappier". I'll be one of those nerds in line at the Apple Store. But I will be getting it at 8...not midnight.
51 09 2003 2:51PM
megnut: Another $129?! Jesus.
Oh, give me a break. As I'm fond of pointing out these days, you really have to think of this not so much 10.3, but rather version 3 of OS X. I don't think charging for a major new OS version (as opposed to the point releases you get through software update) is so terribly awful.
FWIW, wearisome brused metal critiques aside, Panther is worth it.
56 09 2003 2:56PM
Actually--make that version 4 of OS X (I forgot about 10.0).
45 09 2003 6:45PM
I hear from a friend (who installed the latest release before gold master) that the speedup on his G4 450 was "amazing," larger than the jump from 10.1 to 10.2 and could be on the scale of the 10.0 to 10.1 jump. I wasn't expecting a huge speed increase, but I'll take it.
But I agree, Expose is worth it alone.
24 09 200310:24PM
$129 is pretty steep. Apple really needs to make sure it moves a large percentage of the base up to each new version. At that price and with no discounts for upgrading from Jaguar, the MacOS audience is going to get very fragmented which is a very bad thing.
$129 for a window arranger? Are you out of your mind?
41 09 200310:41PM
Honestly, I don't think 129 is bad at all. Expose is just one of the improvements. Quality costs.
People can stick with windows if that's their choice.
25 10 2003 1:25AM
Matt - just wait until you see a picture of this particular nerd *working* at one of the release parties.
49 10 200310:49AM
Well, I'll pay $69 for my educational discounted window arranger. But I switch between a number of apps very frequently, more than the average person, I'd guess. If I can lop off a fifth of a second per app switch, I would save a few minutes per day. I think the savings will be more along the lines of a half a second per switch because I'm usually hunting for one specific document within an application.
So, yeah, I could be crazy. Crazy like a fox!
As for fragmentation, yeah, it could happen if people didn't pirate software. What I've found is that a few people will pay the price for the upgrade and then pass it on to their family and friends. I already have five people on my upgrade waiting list. So by selling a million copies, Apple is really upgrading five million people.
47 11 2003 7:47AM
It's worse than The SIms!
28 11 2003 6:28PM
I think Apple is losing potential upgrading customers by not giving a discount to 10.2 owners, if it was $99 for current 10.2 owners, I think more people could be more inclined to upgrade. Their one price - fits all, is dissapointing and been going on since OS X beta. True, $129 is not too bad, but I think they could get many more people to upgrade if they felt a direct connection to the fact they already own previous OS X versions.
32 13 200311:32AM
Window arranger? That's rich, although if that's your perception of what an operating system does, I could understand the reluctance to pay for one! The window manager, in actuality, is but one subsystem among many in *any* operating system.
Following that same line of reductionist thought, I'd like to announce that all of us programmers have been pulling one over on the world for some time now. Truth be told, programming isn't that hard: after all, it's just typing, right?
11 01 2004 6:11AM
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
This thread is closed to new comments. Thanks to everyone who responded.
Schmelding03 08 2003 1:03PM
Lemme be the first to say, "I hereby welcome my Panther overlord."