lol...no need for vista anymore...

Post by **DiscoDave** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 1:39 pm

OSX is nice.....but I'm only going to consider getting one now that you can put windows on it aswell.

Doombrain, school of rock is a class movie

I've used Linux before and if you put in the time you will see loads of benefits from it. I just didn't like the fact it took me ages just to get a DVD to run on it (some legal issue?)

Post by **MKJ** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 1:51 pm

seremtan wrote:more gold

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8flLpb3zXA&NR

how much time does this dork have?

Post by **seremtan** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 2:01 pm

it takes blood and sweat to be an internet legend

or so they tell me

Post by **Lieutenant Dan** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 4:04 pm

I still use Win98.

Yeah, that shit rules.

Post by **bag0shite** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 5:08 pm

saturn wrote:Once you get used to OS X you'll never look back to Windows. I don't waste time anymore on setting up security, defragging the HD, installing and updating anti-virus programs, managing firewalls, cleaning up dll's and shit that programs left behind. Besides the eyecandy it has lots of functionality and the feeling that it's easy to use. I fire up my PC once in two weeks maybe, just to get updates for my windows mobile 2003 PDA. That's it.

Yet you used to take the piss out of us Mac guys

*smug*

Post by **saturn** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 7:23 pm

I did? I never posted/trolled in the Mac forum. They had their own niche and only posted in BD or GD. Now I'm one of them guys

Post by **Dave** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 7:42 pm

Vista works fine, OS X works fine, I use whatever I need to use to get the job done. It's a bad worker who blames his tools

Post by **GONNAFISTYA** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 7:45 pm

Using WindowBlinds and Object Dock my XP installation looks and feels like OSX.

Post by **SoM** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 7:46 pm

dark metal is hot

Post by **Tsakali_** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 9:08 pm

GONNAFISTYA wrote:Using WindowBlinds and Object Dock my XP installation looks and feels like OSX.

is there a performance hit for using 3rd party gui's?

Post by **SoM** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 9:12 pm

always

Post by **GONNAFISTYA** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 9:34 pm

Actually...there isn't any performance hit...at least any I can notice.

Windowblinds is hardware accelerated...so it's actually (according to their documentation) faster than the default XP themes.

Post by **seremtan** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 9:37 pm

fuck that shit. use the vista transformation pack, kids

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 9:38 pm

from what i recall, object dock was a pig.

Post by **GONNAFISTYA** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 9:59 pm

According to task manager Object Dock is using 6 mb of ram and - along with all the other crap I've got running - I notice no difference with it off or on.

But I suppose if you create 10 docks and fill em full of crap it could be a system hog.

Post by **SoM** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 10:00 pm

but how much ram u have ?

thats also a huge factor

Post by **GONNAFISTYA** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 10:02 pm

2 GB + 3.2 GHz P4 Prescott Hyperthreading blah blah blah.

Post by **SoM** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 10:04 pm

then its obvious u dont notice it

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 11:36 pm

GONNAFISTYA wrote:According to task manager Object Dock is using 6 mb of ram and - along with all the other crap I've got running - I notice no difference with it off or on.

But I suppose if you create 10 docks and fill em full of crap it could be a system hog.

note that this was a couple of years ago. i'm sure they've probably come a ways since then.

Post by **GONNAFISTYA** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 11:55 pm

With regards to WindowBlinds, any version after 4.5 is hardware accelerated. Don't bother with anything before that.