Hi guys. I am planing on switching to Mac OSX in october when Leopard comes out.
The reason why, is simple. First of all, I just LOVE linux, it is an awesome OS, and for my needs WAY better than MS Windows. I'd still recommend it to everyone! BUT:
There are just some things that wont work the way I want them to.
- I can't get my mic to work so I can't skype
- I can not sync my cell phone with the adress book.
- There is no good video editing software for linux.
That are the main reasons why I wanted to switch to OSX.
Now I know that everyone here will say "yes do it!" I mean, what else? I am posting in mac-forums.com but still there are some things that keep me thinking if I really should do it.
I hope anyone knows what I am talking about if I say that I am using compiz fusion rightnow. And to be honest, it's just freaking great!
I want to be totally honest: I think some of the Eyecandy and usability that comes with it, I will just miss
So my question is, if there is a way like in compiz fusion, to set a window's transperancy by just pressing alt and moving the mouse wheel up and down??
I know this is just a tiny feature, but I've come to appreciate it a lot. It brings so much more productivity to computing. For instance, what I do often is, I watch a movie and then someone chats with me in Pidgin (Adium for Mac useres )
So I maximize the chat window over the movie player's window and make the window transperent, that way I can chat and watch the movie the same time, and I can look at both things and follow the movie and the chat the same time.
My question was, if that was possible in Mac OSX as well?
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Another question I have is about the Intel GMA950 graphics processor of the Macbook. Rightnow I have an ATI X700 Mobile graphics card in my laptop.
I was searching for some benchmarks on the internet that compared the two processors in speed and performance, but I did not find any
I was just curious if compiz fusion would work just as flawless on the macbook I was going to buy, like it does on my laptop rightnow.
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What about the 13" screen? What are your experiences. Switching from a 15" laptop to a 13" macbook, wouldn't that be too tiny??
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So far my questions, I hope someone here can help me out and give some profound answers.
If I'll have some more questions I will post them in here again
So far, thanks in advance!
Greetings
Flo
The reason why, is simple. First of all, I just LOVE linux, it is an awesome OS, and for my needs WAY better than MS Windows. I'd still recommend it to everyone! BUT:
There are just some things that wont work the way I want them to.
- I can't get my mic to work so I can't skype
- I can not sync my cell phone with the adress book.
- There is no good video editing software for linux.
That are the main reasons why I wanted to switch to OSX.
Now I know that everyone here will say "yes do it!" I mean, what else? I am posting in mac-forums.com but still there are some things that keep me thinking if I really should do it.
I hope anyone knows what I am talking about if I say that I am using compiz fusion rightnow. And to be honest, it's just freaking great!
I want to be totally honest: I think some of the Eyecandy and usability that comes with it, I will just miss
So my question is, if there is a way like in compiz fusion, to set a window's transperancy by just pressing alt and moving the mouse wheel up and down??
I know this is just a tiny feature, but I've come to appreciate it a lot. It brings so much more productivity to computing. For instance, what I do often is, I watch a movie and then someone chats with me in Pidgin (Adium for Mac useres )
So I maximize the chat window over the movie player's window and make the window transperent, that way I can chat and watch the movie the same time, and I can look at both things and follow the movie and the chat the same time.
My question was, if that was possible in Mac OSX as well?
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Another question I have is about the Intel GMA950 graphics processor of the Macbook. Rightnow I have an ATI X700 Mobile graphics card in my laptop.
I was searching for some benchmarks on the internet that compared the two processors in speed and performance, but I did not find any
I was just curious if compiz fusion would work just as flawless on the macbook I was going to buy, like it does on my laptop rightnow.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
What about the 13" screen? What are your experiences. Switching from a 15" laptop to a 13" macbook, wouldn't that be too tiny??
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So far my questions, I hope someone here can help me out and give some profound answers.
If I'll have some more questions I will post them in here again
So far, thanks in advance!
Greetings
Flo