Slow Laptop, so i think i should.... - Page 2

dlloyd · #9 May 3rd, 2004, 05:05 PM

Yah, AOL and MS

. Why not iChat or some other AIM client that actually works?

marto · #10 May 3rd, 2004, 05:42 PM

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Originally Posted by dlloyd

Yah, AOL and MS

. Why not iChat or some other AIM client that actually works?

I havent get ichat to work without getting a mac acount (is it possible?).

Decado · #11 May 3rd, 2004, 05:44 PM

First Class and Direct Connect slows down my computer.

dlloyd · #12 May 3rd, 2004, 06:12 PM

No, you don't need a .Mac to use iChat, it works with any AIM account.

blackoutspy · #13 May 3rd, 2004, 06:53 PM

I've found a AIM client that is so much nicer, and very customizable, visualy. http://www.adiumx.com/ is, so far, a great client that doesn't eat precesses=)

fbp_ · #14 May 3rd, 2004, 09:24 PM

actually adium is really terrible when it decides to mess up, I have noticed my fan whirring away from across the room and found adium using 70-80% of the processor until its force quit.

but yeah, its still cool.

blackoutspy · #15 May 3rd, 2004, 11:10 PM

ahh i've only been using adium for a half a day so i havn't really seen the long term effects, but so far, it doesn't take enormus amounts of cycles to idle. so far....

dlloyd · #16 May 4th, 2004, 04:47 AM

Adium's nice. I've used it on and off for awhile, but in the end I usually go back to iChat because it's integrated *very* well into the rest of the OS.
Other AIM clients you can try:
Proteus
Fire

Those are both 'muti-service' clients, so if you also use MSN or Yahoo or something (I don't), they're really nice.