Ok, who's received the "Official" Panther ?

[Emrys]

Topic says it all.

I read that if you ordered the upgrade version you do NOT get the Big Black Box, as it's being called, you just get a soft envelope with all yer' stuff. Bummer for you people. Anybody get it yet or what? I know schweb got his...

Pictures would be cool

 

[trpnmonkey41]

ill be getting a box at 8PM tonight. i tried bargaining here at the store but its a no go

 

[Emrys]

Yeah... Some people up in Canada got theirs yesterday. Pretty cool if you ask me.

 

[MacAddikt]

*MacAddikt raises hand

oh wait, the title says "official"

*MacAddikt lowers hand indescretely

 

[Murlyn]

Here' something kind of kewl to look forward to

"... There are also rumors that Apple will be giving away military-style Panther "dog tags" with an Apple logo on both sides to those who purchase Panther during the event. ..."

Anybody want to send me theirs?

 

[Murlyn]

And if you're in NY this is really kewl!

Panther Launch Party In NYC, Fri Oct 24 7:30pm - iPods Raffled Every Hour
tp://www.ipoding.om/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1532&mode=thread&order=0 (outdated link removed)

Tekserve, New York's independent Mac shop, will be celebrating the launch of OS X 10.3 with a Think Panther event on Friday October 24th from 7:30 to 11 PM. There will be live music by Andy Stein and His Swing Quartet, refreshments, and raffles. Dancing is optional.

Of course, the new Mac OS 10.3 "Panther" will be available for purchase starting at 8PM, and five dollars will be donated to Defenders of Wildlife for every copy sold.

A 15GB iPod will be raffled every hour on the half hour starting at 8:30PM. Tekserve will also have an exceptional special offer on the 1.6 GHz Power Mac G5, and deals on closeout Macs, including the PowerBook G4 867 with 640 MB and Airport Extreme for $1500, and a the 17" 1GHz PowerBook G4 with 1GB of RAM for $2500.

 

[Graphite]

Cool...

Ill be gettin and upgrade

 

[trpnmonkey41]

And if you're in NY this is really kewl!

Panther Launch Party In NYC, Fri Oct 24 7:30pm - iPods Raffled Every Hour
tp://www.ipoding.om/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1532&mode=thread&order=0 (outdated link removed)

Tekserve, New York's independent Mac shop, will be celebrating the launch of OS X 10.3 with a Think Panther event on Friday October 24th from 7:30 to 11 PM. There will be live music by Andy Stein and His Swing Quartet, refreshments, and raffles. Dancing is optional.

Of course, the new Mac OS 10.3 "Panther" will be available for purchase starting at 8PM, and five dollars will be donated to Defenders of Wildlife for every copy sold.

A 15GB iPod will be raffled every hour on the half hour starting at 8:30PM. Tekserve will also have an exceptional special offer on the 1.6 GHz Power Mac G5, and deals on closeout Macs, including the PowerBook G4 867 with 640 MB and Airport Extreme for $1500, and a the 17" 1GHz PowerBook G4 with 1GB of RAM for $2500.

wow i could go to that but not sure if its really worth it since i can just go the launch event thats 5 minutes from my house at an apple store. i have some pondering to do

 

[Emrys]

The choices we need to make in life

 

[Murlyn]

Well at one store.. you'll get a free dog tag and maybe mouse pad and it's closer.. and at the other store you'll get the same things, but it's further.. Plus you get the chance of winning a free iPod every half hour.. hmm..

Plus here is a link with the picture of the dog tags:

http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2003/10/20031024165610.shtml

Ok those are kewl.. I wonder if I know anybody that could get me one of those

 

[Padawan]

Any updates on the rumored 10% off, and whether that applies to Educational pricing too?

 

[Mr.Curlynose1]

We ordered ours yesterday (Thursday), which was one day too late to get it delivered tonight. We'll have it Monday or Tuesday next week. The excitement is killing me.

(EDIT) My dad has the government discount so he gets it for $64.50!!)

 

[trpnmonkey41]

im off to the apple store for the night of the panther now

 

[MacAddikt]

as am i

 

[StealthMode]

*MacAddikt raises hand

oh wait, the title says "official"

*MacAddikt lowers hand indescretely

Heh..you too? .....shame on you!...


Stealth -

 

[trpnmonkey41]

they did have the 10% any other items with the purchase of panther but there was no discounts on panther which made me pay twice as much as i was planning to

 

[hokiethang]

they did have the 10% any other items with the purchase of panther but there was no discounts on panther which made me pay twice as much as i was planning to

I got the official box earlier today when the fedex guy brought it. I had panther installed and up and running just in time to take it to the local panther party at the university bookstore. Panther is really nice, i like it, and I got the cool box.

 

[trpnmonkey41]

i have one question with fast user switching is it supposed to just switch over or does it actually do that rotating of the screen thing that the box shows.

 

[trpnmonkey41]

nevermind i figured it out

 

[Mr.Curlynose1]

Just got my official Panther!!