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Here is a screenshot of my desktop at work:

Nice eh? That docking bar thing at the bottom works exactly the same, with the zooming, and the rolling, and the hurting... I'm going to install this on my system when I get home too. It doesn't suck resources, it's smallish and concise, and it sets a system restore point when it installs, so you can kill it quickly if you don't like it. You can right-click on the title bar of a window and it will roll up too. Weeeeeeeeeeee!!! Now I have the cool appearance and UI functionality of OSX, but on XP.

So far none of my MS coworkers have seen it yet.

hee hee! that's pretty cool; I also liked this Office Poltergeist prank.

Does it have the osx filebrowser thingy format?
Perhaps more importantly, can you hold shift while minimizing a window to watch it in slow motion?

Yes you can hold shift for a slower, animated minimize.

ThemeXP is what I have been running which has the option of using ZERO system resources...you can style your windows to look like os x but you don't get that dashboard thing...

check it out here:

http://www.themexp.org/


I have the retail StyleXP software if anyone wants it...although I think you could easily find it using ye olde favorite torrent site...

I'm not so sure I want my windows to look like OSX. I don't particularly like that zoomy thing at the bottom. Remember I use all those icons on the bottom already.

I have been using StyleXP on this here laptop for quite a while - tho it is the kind of thing I setup one day just messin around and I have never touched since. I use a modified version of the DameK skin.

The dock/dash/whateverthehell is optional. It's just nicer all around though. I don't normally even use themes (not even the XP theme) I usually switch everything into Windows Classic mode, because it's simpler. Well, this thing is actually fast and efficient, AND it looks cool. The way I have it set up at home is much better than that screenshot above from my work system.

I just used a stripped down corona theme...it doesn't overdo the start menu thing but I like the look over the stock xp look.

I can hear teh 3ndar scoffing in disguist right now. A while back I had my desktop all mac-ed out, and got an indignant "why would you want to make your PC look like a mac!?" from him.


Because it looks damn good bee-hatch!

Indeed. OSX is one of the best looking OSes that I've see (besides maybe Irix on old SGI Iris workstations.) I think a better question would be, "Why would you want Windows to look like Windows, when it could look better?" I will always prefer PC hardware, but Windows is ugly.

Agreed.

I would actually like to try running the entire thing on my PC. As in the version of OS X that runs on x86. This would have to be dual boot of course, im not that crazy.

It only runs on certain hardware, and it's a pain to install. If you can get it running though, I guess it's pretty cool. They'll probably just release it someday anyway though. I'll wait for that, so I have driver support.