AIM for Mac User Reviews
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"Slowest App on the mac"
Version: AIM for Mac 4.6
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
The GUI for this application takes so much CPU time its not even funny!!
other then that its a pretty solid app... but the CPU it takes just to render a IM window is extremly unacceptable! Heck even iChat with its flashy animated bubbles and interface is far less of a CPU hog then this. Common AOL don't you enjoy using applications that run fast like normal ones?!!! -
"Jeeze ! This app s**cks !"
Version: AIM for Mac 4.6
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
I've downloaded it to use my iChat AV. Because everybody is using ICQ and MSN, I've tried to add my ICQ list. After typing in the numbers, the appeared to be offline, even they were online in my ICQ window.
What a waste of time -
"S-L-O-W, unreliable"
Version: AIM for Mac 4.6
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
I 'upgraded' to v4.6 from v4.1 but regret it quite a bit. First of all, v4.6 takes forever to connect and sign in. Once you establish a chat, you can watch your keystrokes appearing in the window one--by--one. Where are all those CPU cycles going?? And the app has unexpectedly quit on me numerous times just as it has for other reviewers. This is likely linked to the slowness--there seems to be some bad programming going on here. If AOL could clean up their code, this could become a nice application. -
"Okay except..."
Version: AIM for Mac 4.6
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
These new features work well:
ICQ buddies can be added now to the list
Not sure about sms forwarding...
However in a future update it would be really great if these features could be implemented (so that this can be more on par with iChat and/or Adium):
tabbed IM windows
buddy search feature
voice chat
video conferencing
no ads -
"Are you kidding me?"
Version: AIM for Mac 4.6
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
The "new" features are IDENTICAL to what was listed last time. How many people work on Mac AIM? I'm guessing .02, some guy who stays after work to do it. Where is:
VOICE CHAT
WORKING SMILIES - they turn out as text half the time and AOL ignores my repeated emails about this, stupid jerkfaces
Expressions
Other PC AIM 5 stuff
iChat AV is going to kick their @$$ and if AOL wasn't such a pansy with their closed protocols it already would have, as well as the open source AIM clients.
Has AIM for Mac ever not sucked? I remember the OS 9 hard crashes clearly. I'd give this -11 out of 5 stars if I could. Last installer never even opened right. -
"I'm with Simon on this one..."
Version: AIM for Mac 4.6
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
Still no voice and iChat doesn't allow us to communicate via voice with PC users, that is unexceptable -
"When do we have voice????"
Version: AIM for Mac 4.6
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
Until voice messgae is comming back, I will not use this krap. -
"Yeah...."
Version: AIM for Mac 4.6
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
The best just got better! -
"hmm"
Version: AIM for Mac 4.5.995
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
I use AIM for straight ahead IMing with coworkers (I work at a remote location). No chat groups or looking for new buddies or bells and whistles for me. Been using the previous versions since it was available for OSX, without a hitch.
For what I need it for, this is still FAR better than iChat. Main advantages: 1) A larger text box for replies (I know this can be hacked in iChat, but it's easier to resize on the fly with AIM). 2) Away messages that work with all of my coworkers who use AIM in OS9 instead of iChat. 3) File transfers that work. In iChat, file transfers are make believe as far as I can tell. 4) No freakin text balloons.
Thanks AOL for continuing to support this for OSX. It's appreciated. -
"Should Still Be Beta"
Version: AIM for Mac 4.5.995
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
Very inconsistent behavior. Sometimes it connects, other times it does not. When running (in the background, connected to nobody), the Mac runs very slowly, to the point where you need to quit AIM just to work on a simple text document.
Sometimes it requires a reboot just to get connected (and avoid an endless period of it playing that annoying "music" while it tries). When that happens, I reboot, fire up Internet Explorer to verify the connection, and try AIM again.
I'm looking for an alternative (I wish the pre-G3 Mac could run Mac OS X so I could use iChat).
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