I'm the unic user of my computer at home, and a unic Mac user in a Windows intranet at work. At work there's no problem, due to different nature of OSes. At work, with only a instance of skinned programs, there's nop.
When i use Object Bar and Window Blinds, the computer runs so slowly; with desktopx runs very well (with a Pentium 1gh 500 mb ram); before, with a older pentium and "only" 128 Mb, desktopx runs very slowly.
Sincerelly, i think that desktopx really enhances the comunication, the workflow and the speed with the computer.
ObjectBar is a enhancement to the workflow.
Window Blinds is not very useful. The shortcuts to folders or program-controls can be allowed in objectBar or the original Windows taskbar; also, WB not skin all Windows aspects, and sometimes crash the programs (when this happens, the most of the skins make the visiblity of program very poor -just the contrary of first WB intention). Also, sometimes, WBB auto-increases the use om system resources at limit. I dont't like StyleXP (the competence) but is more efficient than WindowBlinds if yoy have lots of memory (WARNING: this program also crashes!).
Other kind of programs: WindowFX make crash some programs; Winamp have a little different usage, but never crashes and are very useful; Sonique is the best skin implemented but are too much complicated; EZPOP works very well!
THE DIFFERENCE: I use Kaleidoscope on Mac (the analogue of WB on Mac). MacOS 9 (the Mac users oficial release until Photoshop 6.5 comes) is more delicate in memory usage, and crashes the computer on any memory deviation. This occurs any day at least 3-4 times. My Mac never crashed using Kaleidoscope. Also, this program really skin all Mac's interface aspects.
Other Mac Apps. (Sound Jam, Quicktime-iTunes-Sherlock and other carbon skinned, never crashed, never, never.
This is not a charge to WindowBlinds. Simply i find desktopx enhances more the desktop and the use with the computers. If WB comes more robust, i will use WB surelly.
