Comments on: Switching to Konfabulator http://www.matthewgifford.com/2005/07/31/switching-to-konfabulator/ Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:51:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Paul The UnixCentric http://www.matthewgifford.com/2005/07/31/switching-to-konfabulator/comment-page-1/#comment-2699 Paul The UnixCentric Wed, 03 Aug 2005 00:41:49 +0000 http://www.matthewgifford.com/2005/07/31/switching-to-konfabulator/#comment-2699 <p>Personally, I'd suggest there's much more fo a difference than you're experiencing.</p> <p>Dashboard, for me, shoots my CPU usage to 100%, and achieves load averages <em>(on its' own)</em> of up to 2.50. What's worse is that it does this with any more than one widget running.</p> <p>Konfabulator is incredibly smooth, lightweight, and uses negligable system resources <em>(as compared to the time I tested / played with it a handful of years ago)</em> so I'm glad it's free now.</p> <p>Of course, neither Dashboard nor Konfabulator have decent Yahoo or GMail checkers. My kingdom for both; especially the former...</p> Personally, I’d suggest there’s much more fo a difference than you’re experiencing.

Dashboard, for me, shoots my CPU usage to 100%, and achieves load averages (on its’ own) of up to 2.50. What’s worse is that it does this with any more than one widget running.

Konfabulator is incredibly smooth, lightweight, and uses negligable system resources (as compared to the time I tested / played with it a handful of years ago) so I’m glad it’s free now.

Of course, neither Dashboard nor Konfabulator have decent Yahoo or GMail checkers. My kingdom for both; especially the former…

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