It took the promise of NeXTSTEP, the heart of classic Mac OS, and the raw performance of Unix, and forged them into a Swift (no pun intended) operating system that no longer begged for indulgence. Panther said to the world: “The Mac is back. And it’s hungry.”
No OS is perfect. Panther had its warts: Mac Os X 10.3 panther
Regardless of taste, this was the most cohesive visual theme OS X had ever seen. Scroll arrows were pinned together by default (a controversial change Apple would later revert), and pinstripes were finally gone from window backgrounds. It took the promise of NeXTSTEP, the heart