[dracoleb]

To anyone wondering if the 12" iBook is too small worry no more. I have been using mine and find expos� the most useful feature in Panther. The resolution is more than adequate for individual windows and more are just a button press or mouse move away. On my PC I have my resolution at 1600x1200 but I don't find a problem with this screen at all. I think that when I go back to my PC i'll find myself accidentally hitting the f9 key.

[El Mago]

It is sa-weet, no?

[EvanV]

What is Expose?

[Wiskedjak]

Sorry to not jump on the expose bandwagon, but I'm actually under-impressed with it. I've got a nice little app called "Show Desktop" that sits in my dock and I find much preferable to expose.

[Commodus]

EvanV:

http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/expose/

The write-up doesn't do it justice, though, it's best to see a video or to see it in person. It's a very clever window management system.

[MusicalTone]

I will jump on that bandwagon!

Expose is awesome

[wludavid]

What type of video card do you have? My iBook has the 16MB card, which is just enough for QE, but I'm concerned that the increasing reliance on video card processing might make the computer come to a crawl with all these fancy animations.

[dracoleb]

The graphics card in the iBook G4 is an ATI Radeon 9200 32 Meg

[flatcatch]

I agree, Expos� is great. I have the 'F9' functionality as button-3 on my logitech trackball and now I can't live without it. Having a ton of windows open on both monitors is no long a huge pain since I can find what I need in just seconds.

[Eciton]

True - as a Switcher of one day I already can't live without it.

+1

[rytc]

It is pretty sweet, one of the main features I've used since upgrading my clamshell to Panther. Ironically updating this iBook everytime a new version of OS X has come out has made it more and more useable.

[willed]

Originally posted by Eciton:
True - as a Switcher of one day I already can't live without it.

+1

Hey, congrats, you finally made it! iBook G4 I presume? Or second hand G3?

[phillryu]

Expos� runs fine on my 600mhz ibook with a crappy 8mb graphics card, don't worry about it, its very smooth.

[Eciton]

Originally posted by willed:
Hey, congrats, you finally made it! iBook G4 I presume? Or second hand G3?

Aha, you remember me! Indeed, after a year's procrastination, waiting and sleepless nights I finally sprang for a 12" iBook, new. I've maxed everything out and I'm happy with my decision .

[tr]

Originally posted by Wiskedjak:
Sorry to not jump on the expose bandwagon, but I'm actually under-impressed with it. I've got a nice little app called "Show Desktop" that sits in my dock and I find much preferable to expose.

i've done just the opposite, trashed Show Desktop, and just use Expos�. i found i used Show Desktop a lot in Jaguar, but with the same fuctionality built into Panther, not to mention more features, why use a separate app?

tr

[nagromme]

Expose is the best--even on my lowly PowerBook G3 WITHOUT a GPU supported by the OS. It's not smooth like on a PBG4, but it does NOT bog my G3 down.

Show All (not Show Desktop) is the great part of Expose. Put in on a spare mouse button and you can just HOLD that button, then release on the window you want!

Also try hitting Tab while in Show All. (Or for extra fun, hold Tab down!)

Expose is like having a bigger display--exactly big enough--just at the moments you need it.

When Microsoft steals it, lets hope they can't buy their way out of their crimes yet again.

[Cadaver]

Originally posted by phillryu:
Expos� runs fine on my 600mhz ibook with a crappy 8mb graphics card, don't worry about it, its very smooth.

Agreed. Maybe not butter smooth like on my 2x2GG5, but at least perfectly functional (same 8MB VRAM 600MHz iBook).

[Krusty]

Originally posted by nagromme:

Expose is like having a bigger display--exactly big enough--just at the moments you need it.

Well said ...

[Rev-O]

While the Panther pre-release hype machine was chuggin' away, I thought expose was stupid. Had just recieved my G5 dualie and a 23" cinema display, and (duh) saw no point to Expose.

Bought a 12"iBook G4 at the Panther party...

Oh, forgive me, Expose, forgive me! You are the sweetest feature of 10.3! I have seen the error of my ways!

Overstatement, perhaps... nah.

Rev-O

Hey, how do you put a little carrot above the last e in Expose?

[orry_main]

This is a carrot: ^ often found over letters such as o in French, like in 'h�tel'. This is an acute accent: �, often found over letters letters such as e in French, as in 'expos�'.

(Sorry, I was a linguistics major at one point...and I'm just a stickler for these sorts of things )

To get the accent type option+e and then the character you'd like to put the accent over, in this case, e. For the carrot, it's option+i and then the character you'd like to put the accent over. All this used to be found in Key Caps, which Panther has moved into the global 'Special Characters�' item under the Edit menu (the ellipsis, by the way, is option+; )

Oh, yes. And Expos� rocks my little iBook's world.

[tallrower731]

Expose rocks even on my Clamshell iBook (Graphite). Its certainly not as smooth as my new iBook, but its pretty sweet.

[mschaef]

I got a chance to play with Expose on an iBook G4 at the Apple Store the other day, and it seemed to work quite well. I also think it's something easy to get addicted to.

[Turias]

I really like the idea behind Expose, but I haven't really been able to get into it, yet. I've trained myself to always hide every application except the one I am using by always option-clicking on the desktop before I switch.

Must... break... habit!

[hadocon]

I love expose as well. I configured it so that I can see all apps when I throw the mouse into the top right corner, and the desktop when I throw it up into the top left corner. I don't like using the F keys.