I downloaded and tried out Limewire last night finally. My wife was asking about a certain CD she wanted, but only knew one song off the radio, so I wanted to check it out first. I had been meaning to try Limewire out, so I gave it a shot.
At first, it was awesome! Had that song downloaded in about 5 minutes, and got another song I wanted too, Superman by Five For Fighting. Worked awesome. (I am going out to buy this CD now BTW - d/l a couple other songs, and they sound great)
But man, it crashed the hell out of my G4 800 PowerMac 4 times in one night!! Had it completely freeze up - no mouse movement, couldn't force quit anything, had to hold down the power button and restart it that way. Just brutal.
So basically, I think it's decent (albeit slow) to get the odd MP3 with, but I sure wouldn't use it, or keep it running, for any length of time. And certainly not running in the background while I did anything important with my Mac.
What do you guys thing - you use Limewire much? Seems funny to me it runs like such a dog, since it always tops the C/NET downloads list... hmmm.
[ 02-26-2002: Message edited by: murbot ]</p>
At first, it was awesome! Had that song downloaded in about 5 minutes, and got another song I wanted too, Superman by Five For Fighting. Worked awesome. (I am going out to buy this CD now BTW - d/l a couple other songs, and they sound great)
But man, it crashed the hell out of my G4 800 PowerMac 4 times in one night!! Had it completely freeze up - no mouse movement, couldn't force quit anything, had to hold down the power button and restart it that way. Just brutal.
So basically, I think it's decent (albeit slow) to get the odd MP3 with, but I sure wouldn't use it, or keep it running, for any length of time. And certainly not running in the background while I did anything important with my Mac.
What do you guys thing - you use Limewire much? Seems funny to me it runs like such a dog, since it always tops the C/NET downloads list... hmmm.
[ 02-26-2002: Message edited by: murbot ]</p>
