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Owlicks · Jun 5, 2002, 07:54 PM

I finally switched all the way to OS X.1.5 now that it finally supports 2-D acceleration on my Rev A iMac. I get good speed on video and such, but I'm looking to get as much speed possible outta this. Is there any way I can turn off menu animations? As in when you let go of a menu it fades out as opposed to going straight off which seems to slow things down a tad. Also what's the best alternative to AIM for OS X? I ran top on the terminal and AIM was eating between 30 and 50% of my processor while it wasn't even doing anything! it's way bad. Are there any 3rd party ones that can still do file sharing?
In case you were wondering I'm on a Rev A iMac, 10.1.5, 384 MB RAM, 500 Mhz + Firewire Harmoni G3 upgrade, Gamewizard Voodoo 2 card (pretty useless in OS X

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hew · Jun 5, 2002, 08:33 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Owlicks:
I finally switched all the way to OS X.1.5 now that it finally supports 2-D acceleration on my Rev A iMac. I get good speed on video and such, but I'm looking to get as much speed possible outta this. Is there any way I can turn off menu animations? As in when you let go of a menu it fades out as opposed to going straight off which seems to slow things down a tad. Also what's the best alternative to AIM for OS X? I ran top on the terminal and AIM was eating between 30 and 50% of my processor while it wasn't even doing anything! it's way bad. Are there any 3rd party ones that can still do file sharing?
In case you were wondering I'm on a Rev A iMac, 10.1.5, 384 MB RAM, 500 Mhz + Firewire Harmoni G3 upgrade, Gamewizard Voodoo 2 card (pretty useless in OS X

)<hr /></blockquote>1. You can't turn off menu animations.
2. A good replacement for AIM is Adium or Proteus for multi-client, but no 3rd party AIM client has file sharing.

CheesePuff · Jun 5, 2002, 09:44 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by hew:
 <blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Owlicks:
I finally switched all the way to OS X.1.5 now that it finally supports 2-D acceleration on my Rev A iMac. I get good speed on video and such, but I'm looking to get as much speed possible outta this. Is there any way I can turn off menu animations? As in when you let go of a menu it fades out as opposed to going straight off which seems to slow things down a tad. Also what's the best alternative to AIM for OS X? I ran top on the terminal and AIM was eating between 30 and 50% of my processor while it wasn't even doing anything! it's way bad. Are there any 3rd party ones that can still do file sharing?
In case you were wondering I'm on a Rev A iMac, 10.1.5, 384 MB RAM, 500 Mhz + Firewire Harmoni G3 upgrade, Gamewizard Voodoo 2 card (pretty useless in OS X

)<hr /></blockquote>1. You can't turn off menu animations.
2. A good replacement for AIM is Adium or Proteus for multi-client, but no 3rd party AIM client has file sharing.<hr /></blockquote>Except for iChat.

iJed · Jun 5, 2002, 10:03 PM

Try ShadowKiller from <a href="http://www.unsanity.com" target="_blank">www.unsanity.com</a> . This turns off all drop shadows making menus and windows speed up many many times. Only disadvantage is that there are no black borders. I just wish Apple would implement this feature as an option (with borders obviously).