{"id":59,"date":"2003-10-31T17:52:12","date_gmt":"2003-11-01T00:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/31\/i-broke-down\/"},"modified":"2003-10-31T17:52:12","modified_gmt":"2003-11-01T00:52:12","slug":"i-broke-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/31\/i-broke-down\/","title":{"rendered":"I broke down."},"content":{"rendered":"

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So I’m just browsing around, minding my own business when I see that Macintouch<\/A> says that Amazon<\/A> has dropped the price of Panther<\/A> 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.<\/p>\n

“What’s this?”<\/p>\n


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“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. <\/p>\n

Mac OS X version 10.3 “Panther” – $69<\/b><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 …<\/p>\n

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