At 9:28 PM +0200 8/30/2009, WhyOSX wrote: >How different people think ! >I deleted most of the widgets because so many of them do not work or >are useless for me >- and I hate this grey appearance; and there were several crashes (freezings). >The Dashboard is a great thing; I have (before I ever had seen an >OSX before) aligned aliasses of the important programs at the times >of 7.5.5 already.
Dashboard with nothing loaded still sucks up 40 MB real memory. That's my big objection to it. Back in the days of the Classic Mac OS, there were things called Desk Accessories (DAs). They were tiny applets that did useful things, and could be called up easily. Dashboard is Apple's reincarnation of the DA. The bad news is that Dashboard is nowhere as versatile as separate DAs were, because it's really a honking big javascript engine. sigh. There are some nice widgets available. But I find the memory and lack of versatility to be a killer. So I try to find small applications that will do the same jobs.... >Tiger only runs faster on faster machines. There is an obvious speed >difference between a 500MHz iMac (128MB, using AOL) and a G4/733/1GB >(1&1/Safari) - the software also plays a role, as the RAM surely >does. Yes, to a point. It is so awesome to see the look on my housemate's face when my 300-MHz Smurf load web pages as fast or faster than his umpteen-GHz PeeCee. LOL - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
