Do you use magnification?

[Bobarito]

I use it with just a touch of magnification. My dock is small with lots of apps and I know generally where they all are and the magnification helps me get to them quick...

I can definitely see both ways though....

 

[Sogo]

OH man, I use to use magnification but then i turned it off for kicks and have yet to turn it back on.

 

[Apple]

Try these settings, Ive used these forever and I love the magnification, jujst enough

 

[Warbrain]

I hate magnification. It's just a waste of CPU and memory.

 

[Glenn Wolsey]

OH man, I use to use magnification but then i turned it off for kicks and have yet to turn it back on.

Same with me

 

[2nyRiggz]

I do but at a little jump....i'm blind.


Bless

 

[Doctor Q]

I have it set for the tiniest possible bit of magnification, just to make them wiggle.

 

[Oryan]

I thought you meant "screen magnification" so I was amazed at the 50/50 split.

 

[rockandrule]

An incredibly tiny magnification on both Macs.

 

[tag]

I've always had magnification on, but not huge magnification or anything, just a bit bigger than the dock itself. It's so neat looking and it really doesn't bother me a bit. I guess when I think about it, it was one of the first things I really noticed when playing with a Mac back when I was a Windows user, I just thought the dock was so cool with its magnification.

 

[lonepilgrim]

I've always had magnification on, but not huge magnification or anything, just a bit bigger than the dock itself. It's so neat looking and it really doesn't bother me a bit. I guess when I think about it, it was one of the first things I really noticed when playing with a Mac back when I was a Windows user, I just thought the dock was so cool with its magnification.

Don't know if anyone's reading this thread anymore, but I think it'd be good if the dock was set up so if you had minor magnification turned on, the icons would all stay where they are horizontally, but the one you were hovering over zoomed *out* of the dock, towards you. I've got it turned off, because although I like the effect of a little magnification, I can't stand the horizontal shifting. It'd be good if the magnification was independent of the horizontal axis.

 

[Bobarito]

It'd be good if the magnification was independent of the horizontal axis.

Good call.

Funny, I posted above that I use magnification, but after a lot of you said you do not, I gave it a try. I don't see my self switching back soon...

 

[p0intblank]

I'm on and off with it... but lately I keep it on. Eventually I will get tired of it, though.

 

[BlizzardBomb]

I hate magnification. It's just a waste of CPU and memory.

Hmmm, that's being a bit of an exaggeration isn't it? I really don't know a computer that would get badly hit in performance by dock magnification.

 

[lonepilgrim]

Good call.

Funny, I posted above that I use magnification, but after a lot of you said you do not, I gave it a try. I don't see my self switching back soon...

There's enough of a gap between the icons to tolerate quite a bit of magnification on the one you're hovering over without covering up the ones on each side. Though I don't think it'd be that big a deal even if it did cover up the ones on each side - to an extent.

Leopard feature No. 201 ?!

 

[annk]

I use it.... no use for it though, it just looks cool. When you move the arrow across the whole dock, it does the wave!!!!!

Yupp! When you're all alone at the computer and think of something brilliant and no one's around to appreciate it, your dock can do the wave for you

I use it, mainly because I've got a lot in my dock and it helps accuracy when I'm in a hurry. But I've been thinking of getting rid of a lot in my dock, and using Spotlight instead.

 

[m-dogg]

I like it. I use a small/medium sized dock with low magnification.

I never realized there were so many anti-magnification people here.

 

[topgunn]

I keep a lot of stuff in my dock so it ends up being pretty small. I keep magnification on so I can click on the icon I need faster.

 

[mac.FINN]

I'll admit that I do enjoy the genie effect, which always wows my non-mac friends. But I can't stand the magnification! Hate it! Furthermore, I hide my dock. I think the dock is a great improvement over the Windows taskbar, but I just can't have it on my screen at all times.

Also, I have a limited # of icons in my dock - I like to keep it as minimal as possible (only 2 icons on my desktop, HD and current projects). I use Tigerlaunch to get at my apps, and I swear by it.

 

[CubaTBird]

i 3> magnification lol

 

[arcobb]

Yep!

Yep I use it... I find it useful to navigate my dock as I seem to have every app I use often. As for the waste of CPU... so is listing to Britney Spears on iTunes.

I've attached a pick of my tock in action... I find it combines the perfect mix of art and sex. It's the Yen in my Yang. (this comment conains heavy sarcasm if you didn't catch it the first time!)https://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=43283&stc=1&d=1142575436

 

[Amuraivel]

I use:

Hide dock, gives me more real estate.
Smallest dock, ditto
Full magnification, lets me see exactly what I am clicking on when hiding.

 

[FadeToBlack]

Nope, no magnification at all here. It's a cool little "show-off" feature, but other than that, to me, it's pretty useless. It just gets in the way, in my opnion.

 

[ImNoSuperMan]

I use:

Hide dock, gives me more real estate.
Smallest dock, ditto
Full magnification, lets me see exactly what I am clicking on when hiding.

Same here.
Minimising and hiding the dock saves some real "real estate" on my 12" iBook.

 

[bousozoku]

It's only useful to show to others. I tried it a couple of times but it's always in the way. It goes along with the Genie effect as the most useless, processor-intensive parts of Mac OS X--next in line, the liquid effect progress bar, which can suck up to 50 % CPU.