Panther is proving to be the most impressive upgrade we’ve seen out of Apple in our eight years in this business. If you have to pay $129 for an operating system, at least you can hope to get your money’s worth if not a bit more…and on this point, Panther delivers in spades.
This article mentions several of the features Apple has been touting and some other below the surface improvements (faster, more reliable networking, improved application startup times). If the new brushed-metal Finder is all we have to complain about, I’m encouraged . . . .