Marcus Mattsson

A while back I wrote about some lacking features in Mac OS X Leopard, and around the same time I switched back to running Windows XP. That’s about seven months ago and my annoyance with Windows XP is rising again. One of my complaints in the other post was the dock, that takes up so much space. While running Windows XP I’ve become accustomed to using Launchy to run my applications, a program very similar, but vastly inferior, to Mac’s built-in instant search feature Spotlight. Hopefully I can more or less ignore the dock (by hiding it) and use Spotlight instead.

The second reason for switching back to XP was the lack of save functions for folder options, I don’t know if that’s been fixed, but I’ll hopefully manage.

The vast amount of applications you can get for Windows was another major reason for switching back, but I stumbled upon two really useful programs that may fix that. The first one is called CrossOver and it lets you run Windows applications such as Internet Explorer (for those pesky eBanking experiences), Steam and, most importantly, uTorrent, a program I use all the time. The other program is called Parallels, it’s a virtual desktop making you able to easily dive into Windows if you need something.

Anyway, I’m writing this in Mac OS X, let’s see how long it lasts.