Ars does Panther

(originally posted at bigbadgeek.com)

This is a fantastic, in-depth look at Apple's OS X 10.3 (Panther).

The most interesting bits to me were...

• packaging/marketing of 10.1 v. 10.2 v. 10.3
• the mini-widget set
• the brushed-metal usage guidelines
• nested tab-area views
• OS upgrades make the system faster*
• the history of window management
• hitting tab while in expose-mode

* - really fascinating, this bit was. Especially in light of my recent hardware inadequacies. In the world of Windows and Linux, we've come to expect a performance hit with each new version if the hardware stayed the same. That OS X has turned that around completely is something that I quite simply took for granted.