$20??!!!
10.1 was free for me 0_o
$0 at compusa
no devkit CD, but I downloaded that off of apple's website so its all good 😀.
and I didnt have to wait an extra week or anything either, just had to pester the right compusa employee
right now os X is fun to play around in, but it probably won't be able to rival os 9.1 in speed, compatability, and general usability until 10.5 or so. if you have a dp machine like me, ya X is already generally faster than 9.1 now, but they've still got a lot of work to do to clean out bugs and things....its certainly stabile and everything, just need more drivers, more UI features (windowshade! and no I don't mean shareware) and more optimization
from the huge improvements seen between 10.0.4 and 10.1, hopefully 10.2 will be just as impressive....