Mine will arrive tomorrow. I'm so freaking stoked! I love wiping a hard drive clean, doing a fresh install and enjoying a new OS. Panther will be my first attempt at going fully non-OS 9. Finally. (There's still one lingering stupid app that I have to use in OS 9, Netscape for print ads via AdSend, which uses Java components that only work in OS 9. Argh! I'll be putting that on a back room iMac).
I wonder what my new favorite toy will be, Exposé (it's a wonder we've gone so long without this), Font Book (about damn time an OS got a built-in font manager), Labels (best GUI feature ever), Preview 1.3 compliant (Acrobat is a total sloth even on a DP G4), and more.
I've actually been looking forward to Panther more than the G5s. Don't get me wrong, the G5s rule. I'll be getting one shortly, but Panther will change how I work. The G5 wil just make my work faster, which is also nice.
It's just a shame Apple is going under (insert sarcasm).