do i really have a choice?
i'm an apple powerbook g4 user, and i've never bothered to change the homepage of any of my browsers, so i started work this morning with the "upgrade to panther for $129" message at apple.com OSX. my first thought was, "wow $129, that seems high. it should be around $79" and i still think that. but yeah, i'll pay it. if i have to pay for an OS, i'd rather have the updates be frequent, significant, and relatively cheap compared to shelling out whatever microsoft is charging these days for XP professional. it probably helps stow off the rampant piracy that goes on with XP and illegit keys that never seem to be further than an email away. i'd never buy a linux OS subscription, because, i don't know, it's supposed to be free, and with a little effort it is.
all that aside, i hope that panther provides a lot more than the incremental upgrades we all get free from apple. specifically, i'm upgrading for improved bluetooth, and being able to print directly to a windows printer share. right now i print to a linux samba share that has a windows print queue loaded via samba. never been able to get it to work any other way.
