I recently got a chance to get a good look at Apple’s upcoming operating system release Panther. As a rule whenever installing a new operating system in the past, (mostly Windows) the experience has left me wishing I had better hardware and as a result spending more money to use the features of a $200 software upgrade. But in this case, the same hardware gave me faster performance. Leave it to Apple to break with convention of effectively forcing hardware purchases hand in hand with OS upgrades. Good Job Apple! I now eagerly await the release of Panther so I can go buy my copy.