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Quote: Originally posted by Zapchud It's improved as much as general UI performance has improved in panther. It's faster, but not very much. The slowness of the dock folders is also due to the harddrive having to read the content of the folder, w…
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Has the performance of Dock menu for folders been improved in Panther? I for one like to put my application folder on the Dock, but it always takes several seconds for the menu to appear after I right click it. I'm running Jaguar on 500Mhz G3.
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Quote: Originally posted by alligator Why? How do you know if something is a shortcut or not? In Windows, there is the little arrow overlay. What does OS X do? It also shows a little arrow overlay... at least in the Finder; I'm not sure i…
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Quote: Originally posted by Zapchud I can second Ringo. A G3 500 without QE will get a substansial performance boost, and Exposé will run perfectly acceptably. I've tested that myself. Great! My iBook is ecstatic now.
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Quote: Originally posted by Powerdoc because aluminium is not transparent to radio emissions. I see... but can't the antenna be taped around the outside, just like they are for the new AlBooks?
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Quote: Originally posted by Jeremiah Rich Hah! The alu's have it in the screen on the exposed sides... So it is not a prob. there. The G5 of course is all alumnium and so I guess that is the reason for it.... But why can't they just make a sm…
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thanx for the info Ringo... can you check with your "friend" if expose runs ok too? thank your friend for me would you? 8)
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Quote: Originally posted by Luca Rescigno Building your own really isn't a pain. I got a 40 GB portable external hard drive by just buying the case and drive separately. It saved me about $50 off other portable hard drives. 1. Open hard drive …
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Geez... I was hoping Panther is going to make my buddy iBook kick ass again. So I guess you're saying only moderate or no performance improvement can be expected?
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Thanks for the help guys.... I've decided to get an external HD and put my entire iTunes library there, and burn songs I want to listen to on my notebook as MP3 CDRs. So now, do any of you guys know a good deal for external firewire HD? Right now …
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Quote: Originally posted by Overhope Command-Tab is your friend: cycles through all open applications in the Dock, switching to or unhiding them as appropriate, much like Alt-Tab in Windoze. Command-Shift-Tab cycles the other way. Other than …
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Quote: Originally posted by alligator Yeah, but why the dock and not just the red circle? What is the difference? Do you lose the contents of the window with the red circle but not with the orange? In case you were confused.... when you cli…
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Quote: Originally posted by alligator It just minimizes it to a different area of the bar on the bottom. Why? If you're asking why would you minimize a window to the Dock.. well, most users like to have multiple windows open so they can work…
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I guess it just gives apple and mac developers more freedom when designing their UI, since some applications (albeit not the majority) simply look better in metal, like QT IMHO. With this kind of freedom, mac developers are less inclined to do ever…