So I’m just browsing around, minding my own business when I see that Macintouch says that Amazon has dropped the price of Panther to $99. “Wow, that’s a a pretty good price.” I say to myself. “Nah, I’ll wait until it gets cheaper. Lemme check what Apple charges for Jaguar so I can see how mcuh money I’ll be saving if I wait.” Click. Click. store.apple.com.

“What’s this?”

“Hmm, lemme try this out. My wife works at a university, I should be able to use this.” Click. Click. Yeah, I work for an education institution, really – I promise. Click. Click.

Mac OS X version 10.3 “Panther” – $69

Holy crap. It’s normally $129. At this point I lost all control and ordered the damn thing. Free shipping too. Total of $74.69. Apple already had my credit card on file from the iTunes Music Store which made it painless.

I lasted exactly one week. That’s not too bad. Now I have to go through the painful process of figuring out the places where I changed my OS X configuration and installed stuff so I can redo it in Panther. I hope PostFix is really easier to configure than Sendmail. Gah.