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The number of times I got outbid on one of those...
Is that Zorin or some other distro? I really liked Pear Linux OS and still have it on one of my Thinkpads. It even had its own 'iCloud' before the author pulled it and the site went into suspended animation.
https://www.tecmint.com/pear-os-8-released-review-and-installation-guide-with-screenshots/
Is that Zorin or some other distro? I really liked Pear Linux OS and still have it on one of my Thinkpads. It even had its own 'iCloud' before the author pulled it and the site went into suspended animation.
https://www.tecmint.com/pear-os-8-released-review-and-installation-guide-with-screenshots/
Bang on
There's RocketDock too - it can be all fine tuned to eventually get pretty close to Leopard but I'll not bother - I'm happy for Windows to look like Windows.However, if I could Hackintosh the Toughbook that'd be great but it's not compatible enough.
It obviously is, and not the best one - trust me if done better at the time i wanted a mac so desperately but had no money to afford one
so i 'built' my own one
I loved so much the dock magnification graphical effect when I tried for the first time Mac OS X on my MDD, that I've looked for a similiar effect on windows, and found an app called Rocket Dock. It is very nice and snappy, even on old PCs, but in the end I realized that every PC has its own identity. A windows PC with a Mac theme, looks just weird IMHO.
Win XP. Yes, I installed Pear OS whilst it was still active on a few netbooks in the past - good looking effort.
Yep, Toughbooks are getting more expensive, got lucky on this one as it wasn't guaranteed fully working but it's ok plus 6 hour battery too.
Yep rocketdock is my favorite customizable windows dock to use as well. For OS9, A-Dock has been my go to as I got so used to using a dock in OSX and RD/winX. But yeah RD is a good one. Now if I could figure out how to stick the 7-day weather forecast objectdock docklet into RD, man that would be a good day
Bang on
However, if I could Hackintosh the Toughbook that'd be great but it's not compatible enough.
That sounds like a challenge more than a limitation.
For XP there is an app called Finderbar IIRC that places a menu bar next to the windows menu - if you want to get nearer to it
Thanks - I only did this as a curiosity though, I've already gone back to a standard black XP theme...with all effects turned off naturally
Although such CPU penny pinching isn't really necessary - the 1.6Ghz Pentium M clocks itself down to 598Mhz even when playing 720P video.
I forgot there's Pearl Linux too which is still supported - I put that on my daughters PC and it worked well.