Can WinXP do that wallpaper thingie that MacOSX does??

[BamBam215]

Was at CompUSA and played with a MacOSX running on a 23" widescreen apple monitor. All I gotta say was HOLY GODDDAMMNNNN THAT IS BEAUTIFUL. I noticed that MacOSX allows you to blend and change wallpapers automatically because I was just messing around and the wallpaper kept fading in and out to different ones. Can WinXP do this?

 

[notfred]

I'm pretty sure it can't.

 

[element]

Yeah because the sole purpose of a $3000 machine is so you can stare at the wallpaper fading in and out all day. ROFLfelafel.

Ever heard of a screensaver?

 

[TommyVercetti]

Originally posted by: element®
Yeah because the sole purpose of a $3000 machine is so you can stare at the wallpaper fading in and out all day. ROFLfelafel.

Right on!

 

[isekii]

Well with the amount of crap people install on their PC's I wouldn't be surprised.

 

[Luden]

I was told Windows Longhorn does that, but I dont know..

Luden.

 

[Kadarin]

OSX will let you run 3D apps as your desktop wallpaper. A popular one is the acquarium screensaver.. it's a trip seeing realistic fish moving around on your desktop...

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33
OSX will let you run 3D apps as your desktop wallpaper. A popular one is the acquarium screensaver.. it's a trip seeing realistic fish moving around on your desktop...

Which is about all that the Mac is good for.

j/k

I said just kidding, dammit! Image manipulation on a mac kick's a PCs ass.

 

[0roo0roo]

from what i remember, osx uses some 3d accel effects in ths gui. kinda neat. i looked around for a pc equiv a while back when i first saw the osx stuff and was droolin. i've given up, the pc's simply inferior in this area

 

[pray4mojo]

Originally posted by: FFMCobalt

Originally posted by: Astaroth33
OSX will let you run 3D apps as your desktop wallpaper. A popular one is the acquarium screensaver.. it's a trip seeing realistic fish moving around on your desktop...

Which is about all that the Mac is good for.

j/k

I said just kidding, dammit! Image manipulation on a mac kick's a PCs ass.

A very pricey kick in the ass but it's still a good one.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
from what i remember, osx uses some 3d accel effects in ths gui. kinda neat. i looked around for a pc equiv a while back when i first saw the osx stuff and was droolin. i've given up, the pc's simply inferior in this area

WTF. You don't buy a computer to stare at the pretty Apple menu (or start menu)! Jesus!!

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: pray4mojo

Originally posted by: FFMCobalt

Originally posted by: Astaroth33
OSX will let you run 3D apps as your desktop wallpaper. A popular one is the acquarium screensaver.. it's a trip seeing realistic fish moving around on your desktop...

Which is about all that the Mac is good for.

j/k

I said just kidding, dammit! Image manipulation on a mac kick's a PCs ass.

A very pricey kick in the ass but it's still a good one.

As long as that's all you're doing, too. Other than image manipulation, Macs BLOW.

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: FFMCobalt

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
from what i remember, osx uses some 3d accel effects in ths gui. kinda neat. i looked around for a pc equiv a while back when i first saw the osx stuff and was droolin. i've given up, the pc's simply inferior in this area

WTF. You don't buy a computer to stare at the pretty Apple menu (or start menu)! Jesus!!

oh, be a man and admit the truth when you see it. this is an area where the pc simply blows.

 

[DanTMWTMP]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo

Originally posted by: FFMCobalt

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
from what i remember, osx uses some 3d accel effects in ths gui. kinda neat. i looked around for a pc equiv a while back when i first saw the osx stuff and was droolin. i've given up, the pc's simply inferior in this area

WTF. You don't buy a computer to stare at the pretty Apple menu (or start menu)! Jesus!!

oh, be a man and admit the truth when you see it. this is an area where the pc simply blows.

yeah...true

must use third party skinning and fading and effect tools to get similar effects

 

[TheCorm]

Webshots desktop can change the desktop but I doubt it had any fancy blending options. It also has tonnes of desktops for download.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo

Originally posted by: FFMCobalt

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
from what i remember, osx uses some 3d accel effects in ths gui. kinda neat. i looked around for a pc equiv a while back when i first saw the osx stuff and was droolin. i've given up, the pc's simply inferior in this area

WTF. You don't buy a computer to stare at the pretty Apple menu (or start menu)! Jesus!!

oh, be a man and admit the truth when you see it. this is an area where the pc simply blows.

yeah...true

must use third party skinning and fading and effect tools to get similar effects

There are some "advances" that aren't worth the time. Saying that has the same effect of saying "you can get tires that are more black on a Dodge Neon than you can on a Viper GTS! The Viper is simply inferior on this!"

WHO CARES about the 3d accel. effects in the gui!? Well, I guess some would. But if it influences your purchase in any way, you have some seriously messed up priorities.