Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler I'm heading to 'macbook' Boot Camp!

Have you tried Camino? It's like Firefox lite, built specifically for Mac. The universaly binary works great for me.

It did take a me a while to give up my precious firefox extensions, though.

what's the diff btw Camino and Firefox?

Camino uses mac interface widgets for drop down menus and list boxes in web pages. It also doesn't support firefox extensions. It does have its own ad-blocking that works pretty well.

Here's a quote about the mac-specific features:

"Dedicated Integration

Camino integrates tightly with your Mac OS X computing environment. The native Cocoa interface and the beautifully-designed icons make Camino a very useful and elegant desktop citizen.

OS X Integration
But integration does not stop with Camino's appearance. Camino incorporates features that use Spotlight, Address Book, the Keychain, the Finder, the Dock, Bonjour, Services, and System Preferences. The Camino Project's commitment to the platform shows in its support for Mac OS X versions 10.2, 10.3, and 10.4; on each version, Camino provides the seamless experience users have come to expect from software running on Apple’s Mac OS X."

Does it work with OWA now? It's been a couple of years since I've tried it...

Yeah, but you get the watered down version since it's not IE.

Without starting a flame war, everything isn't better on OSX

Funny too that it's the Penny Arcade guys that are quoted.

When Mike and Jerry (aka Tycho & Gabe) got their new whiz-bang Macs they shilled them so hard I thought one of their gag reflexes would surely kick in and they'd regurgitate er, "apple juice" all over the blankets.

I mean, here are two people who not only drank the Kool-Aid, judging by the news posts around that time (and I read them tri-weekly), they also had big Kool-Aid Pitchers tattooed across their backs and Kool-Aid UPC codes on their foreheads. They had Macs, so they shouted from the rooftops that the PC is dead, long live the Mac.

Good to see something kicked them in the groin and toppled them from their high horse about an operating system. It's an OS, many people used it before you, everyone's got a different opinion on it. Your 6 million readers a day don't make your stand on it any more valuable than anyone else's.

(/end rant)

Bren R.

Wow, fanatic much? It always sucks when people like something enough to tell other people about it, doesn't it? <rollseyes>

As to the article, I can't say I'm surprised. WoW was kicked out the door pretty quickly for the Mactels. I'm sure there's a lot of optimization to be done. Also, the OS isn't entirely native yet, so there's probably some slow down there. And I'm sure OpenGL vs DirectX has something to do with it.

Just wondering of you guys know of any issues to keep in mind (besides the typical "backup before you do the install") before I install 10.4 Tiger over 10.2 Jaguar.

I've heard of some third-party software that may become unstable or unusable but the only ones that I have installed are Mozilla and Flip4Mac (F4M apparently doesn't work on 10.2).

A simple backup will do fine. Also, go with the "Archive and Install" option. It'll keep all your user files as they are, but archive your current system files and install a fresh OS. Your old OS files will still be accessible in case you want to move some things back to the new OS. If you don't care about the old OS files, you can just trash them.

Archive and install is the cleanest way to go if you'd rather not wipe everything.